abruption
A sudden termination or interruption.
Noun
- A sudden termination or interruption.
- A sudden breaking off or breaking away; a violent separation of bodies.
- By this abruption posterity lost more instruction than delight. - 1837, Samuel Johnson, The Life of Cowley:
- After a startling abruption and a slow recovery, the canonic process is resumed at [7], with a whole slew of redundant entries on the last phrase. - 1996, Richard Taruskin, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, page...
Origin
From abrupt + -ion. From Latin abruptio, from abrumpo (“to break off”).