destruccioun

• distruccioun, distructioun
• destruccione, destruccon, destructione, destruxioun, distroccioun, distruccion, dystruccioun (Late Middle English)

Borrowed from Old French destruccion, from Latin dēstructiō (“destruction, demolition”). Forms with /i/ may either represent vowel reduction or influence from the prefix dis- (as if Latin *distructiō).

• IPA^(key): /dɛˌstruksiˈuːn/, /dɛˈstruksjun/, /dɛː-/, /di-/

destruccioun (uncountable)

1. Destruction; the act of destroying or being destroyed:
   1. Devastation, ruination (of a place or of the Earth)
   2. Ruin, downfall, dissolution (of a person or institution)
   3. Death, mortality; the end of a life.
   4. (rare) Annihiliation (of a sin); nullification (of a law).
2. Something that leads to or creates destruction.

• English: destruction
• Middle Scots: destructioun, distructioun
  • Scots: destruction

• “dē̆strucciǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.