Attrition

1. n. Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition.
2. n. The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.
3. n. The state of being worn.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.