roration

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rōrātio (“dewfall”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rôrāʹshən, IPA^(key): /rəʊˈreɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /rəˈreɪʃən/

Noun

roration (plural rorations)

1. Synonym of dewfall

   With dawn we see the mark of yesternight’s roration.

   • 1810, James Kennedy, Glenochel: A Descriptive Poem in Two Volumes, volume 1, page 50:

     That in the bland rorations calm
     Their luscious redolence receive
     And, with a still, ambrosial balm,
     Aromatize the breath of eve.

Related terms

• rore (obsolete)

References

• The Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1727), volume II of An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721), by Nathaniel Bailey
    A Falling of Dew.
• “roˈration²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]