A rare or archaic term referring to the condition, status, or practice of being a friar.
Derived from 'friar' with the suffix '-ation,' which comes from Latin and typically forms nouns from verbs describing actions or conditions. This is a rarely-used construction and appears mainly in historical or specialized religious texts.
This word is so uncommon that it barely appears in modern dictionaries—it's the kind of word that linguists and medieval history scholars might encounter in very old religious documents. It demonstrates how Latin-origin suffixes can be productively combined with words to create new terms, even if they never catch on.
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