incurvation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INCURVA'TION, noun The act of bending. 1. The state of being bent, or turned from a rectilinear course; curvity; crookedness. 2. The act of bowing, or bending the body in respect or reverence.
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