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tecanecacayahualiztli.

Headword: 
tecanecacayahualiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

mockery (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlacatecolotl, iteixpopoyotiliz itecanecacayahualiz = the blindness and mockery of the devil
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 87.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlacatecolotl, iteixpopoyotiliz itecanecacayahualiz = el Demonio os trae engañados, y burlados
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 86–87.

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