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resumption

noun

Latin root: sūmptus Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about resumption at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Beginning again.

Origin

From re- + Latin sūmptus + -ion, from past participle of sūmō (“to take”).

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