[f. on L. type *centripetentia; cf. centrifugence. In mod.F. centripétence.] Centripetal motion or action.

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1847.  [see CENTRIFUGENCE].

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1867.  Emerson, Lett. & Soc. Aims, vii. (1875), 179. I shall never believe that centrifugence and centripetence balance, unless mind heats and meliorates, as well as the surface and soil of the globe.

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