different between preservation vs drysalter

English

Etymology

From Old French preservacion, from Medieval Latin preservatio.Morphologically preserve +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /p??.z??ve?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

preservation (countable and uncountable, plural preservations)

1. The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

   • Nature does not require
     Her times of preservation, which, perforce
     I give my tendence to

   • The eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, his is ther mighty protection, a preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling.

   • c. 1600, Sir John Davies, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul

     Every seneseless thing by nature's light
     Doth preservation seek, destruction shun

   • , Book II, Chapter XXI

     our all-wise Maker, suitably to our constitution and frame, and knowing what it is that determines the will, has put into man the uneasiness of hunger and thirst, and other natural desires, that return at their seasons, to move and determine their wills, for the preservation of themselves, and the continuation of their species

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Anagrams

• varentropies

English

Etymology

From dry +? salter.

Noun

drysalter (plural drysalters)

1. (now historical) A dealer in chemicals used in the arts (oils, preservatives etc.) as well as, often, preserved foodstuffs including pickles or salted meats.
   • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 82:

     How striking it was to find such sentiments in a man who had risen from nothing to a great fortune, as a dry-salter in London.

Related terms

• drysaltery