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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

exinanitio

An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.

[Obs.]

Fastings to the

exinanition

of spirits.

Jer. Taylor.

Noun.

[L. exinanitio, from exinanio, to empty or evacuate; ex and inanio, to empty, inanis, empty, void.]

An emptying or evacuation; hence, privation; loss; destitution. [Little used.]

exinanition ‎(plural exinanitions)

An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.
Fastings to the exinanition of spirits. — Jeremy Taylor.