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n- The conferring of an academic degree.

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Usage examples (4)
  • Binning was not nineteen years of age at the date of his laureation.
  • Vetch's generosity, put to school, and being minister there, he procured also a bursary for him; but after his laureation, falling into drunkenness, he went over to the...
  • &c. that, upon his refusal of the oath of allegiance then tendered, he was denied his share of the public solemnity of laureation with the rest of the candidates; but...
  • P 35: laueration -- > laureation
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