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countable and uncountable, plural tentations
Obsolete form of temptation. quotations examples
Whether there were any policie in the devil to tempt them [Adam and Eve] before conjunction, or whether the issue before tentation might in justice have suffered with those after, we leave it unto the Lawyer.
1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
(obsolete) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.