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Tentation   Listen
noun
Tentation  n.  
1.
Trial; temptation. (Obs.)
2.
(Mech.) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.





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"Tentation" Quotes from Famous Books



... servile adherence to any system.—WOLOWSKI. No system can be anything more than a history, not in the order of impression, but in the order of arrangement by analogy.—DAVY, Memoirs, 68. Avec des materiaux si nombreux et si importants, il fallait bien du courage pour resister a la tentation de faire un systeme. De Saussure eut ce courage, et nous en ferons le dernier trait et le trait principal de son eloge.—CUVIER, Eloge de ...
— A Lecture on the Study of History • Lord Acton


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