different between intensation vs incensation

intensation

English

Etymology

intense +? -ation

Noun

intensation (countable and uncountable, plural intensations)

  1. (archaic) The act or process of intensifying; intensification; climax.
    • 1828 Thomas Carlyle, Goethe, Foreign Review
      And who will warrant us that, at the same time, he shall only be an intensation and continuation of the old, which in general, is what we long and look for?

Anagrams

  • antitension

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incensation

English

Etymology

incense +? -ation

Noun

incensation (countable and uncountable, plural incensations)

  1. (Roman Catholic Church) The offering of incense.
    • 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia/Consecration
      After the third incensation, the censer is given to a priest, vested in surplice, who, till the end of the consecration, continues going around the altar, incensing it on all sides, save when the bishop uses the censer.

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