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prodition Now rare.|prəʊˈdɪʃən|
[ME. prodycyon, a. OF. prodicion (14th c. in Godef.), ad. L. prōditiōn-em, n. of action f. prōd-ĕre to betray, f. prō, pro-1 + dăre to give.]
Betrayal, treason, treachery.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. xxxiv. (1555), Of doubilnesse and of false treason Undermyninge with prodycyon. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xlix. 4 Thocht he remissioun Haif for prodissioun. 1549Compl. Scot. viii. 72 The proditione of ane realme succedis to the hurt of the public veil. 1597Bp. Hall Guistard & Sismond ii. xv, A traytor guiltie of false prodicion. 1610Rowlands Martin Mark-all 21 They are likely to decrease..through the proditions and betrayings of the people which are contrary to them. 1669Addr. Hopeful Yng. Gentry Eng. 55 The Lanthorn of Judas..lighted the Traitor to the prodition of our Blessed Saviour. 1794T. Taylor Pausanias II. 194 All those who were charged with prodition. 1887W. de G. Birch Domesday Bk. ix. 123 Waltheof does not appear to have entered upon this perilous path of prodition with any intention of acting upon it. |