different between elation vs illation

English

Etymology

From Middle English elacioun, from Old French elacion, from Latin ?l?ti?nem, accusative singular of ?l?ti? (“exaltation, elevation; pride, elation”), from ?l?tus, perfect passive participle of effer? (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ? (“out of”), short form of ex, + fer? (“carry, bear”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

elation (countable and uncountable, plural elations)

1. An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism.
2. A feeling of joy and pride.
3. (geometry) A collineation that fixes all points on a line (called its axis) and all lines though a point on the axis (called its center).

Related terms

• elate
• elated
• efferent

Translations

Anagrams

• Oltenia, toenail

English

Etymology

From Latin ill?ti? (“logical inference, deduction, conclusion”), from ill?tus, perfect passive participle of infer? (“carry or bring into somewhere; conclude”), from in + fer? (“bear, carry; suffer”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??le??(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??le??(?)n/
• Homophone: elation (General American)

Noun

illation (countable and uncountable, plural illations)

1. The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.2:

     Now herein there seems to be a very erroneous Illation: from the Indulgence of God unto Cain, concluding an immunity unto himself […]

   • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding:

     it so orders the intermediate Ideas, as to discover what Connection there is in each Link of the Chain, whereby the Extreams are held together; and thereby, as it were, to draw into View the Truth sought for, which is what we call Illation or Inference […]

   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     Adriaan moved to Pierce’s American illation whereby an if begets a therefore, event by event, the javelin’s flight issuing from the web of contingencies in which we may locate the javelin and the javelineer […]

Related terms

• illative

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