These are the meanings of the letters PRECONTRIBUTION when you unscramble them.
- Contribution (n.)
An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.
- Contribution (n.)
Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for the common benefit.
- Contribution (n.)
That which is contributed; -- either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals.
- Contribution (n.)
The act of contributing.
- Counterpoint (n.)
A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane.
- Counterpoint (n.)
An opposite point
- Counterpoint (n.)
Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony.
- Counterpoint (n.)
The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies.
- Counterpoint (n.)
The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody
- Incorruption (n.)
The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption.
- Interruption (n.)
Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption.
- Interruption (n.)
Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.
- Interruption (n.)
The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
- Interruption (n.)
The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.