单词 | provection |
释义 | provectionn.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > expertise or proficiency craftOE perfectionc1475 accomplement?c1525 proficiency1597 handiness1601 profection1605 expertnessa1616 provection1652 prowessa1668 proficience1713 adeptness1731 hability1840 expertise1868 expertship1880 expertism1886 wizardry1951 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 203 Master Duncan Liddel..was then of that maturity of Age, and provection of skil in most of the disciplines Mathematical. 1660 J. Lloyd Treat. Episcopacy 8 Here in the Church the provections or proficiencies of Bishops, Presbyters, Deacons, be imitations of the angelical glory. 2. Linguistics. a. The devoicing of a consonant; spec. (in Celtic languages) the change over a period of time of voiced consonants to the corresponding voiceless consonants (e.g. of g, d, b, v to k, t, p, f) under the influence of another consonant. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [noun] > provection provection1861 1861 W. Stokes Middle-Cornish Poem in Trans. Philol. Soc. App. 83 Observe the provection [of d to t] after y. 1877 J. Rhŷs Lect. Welsh Philol. vii. 348 It is said..that the f of feather is the p of πτερον subjected to provection. 1949 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 93 44/2 Welsh speakers may have indulged in occasional provection of English [b] [d] [g], thereby reinforcing the Englishman's notion that the Welsh habitually unvoiced these consonants. 1977 Word 28 181 A provection rule which devoices all medial plosives which are preceded by a single vowel and also followed by one. 1996 M. C. Jones Lang. Obsolescence & Revitalization ii. 93 Provection has been eliminated from the speech of the younger generation. b. The transposition of the final letter of a word to the beginning of the word that follows. Cf. metanalysis n. rare (now disused: see quot. 1999). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > provection provection1868 1868 T. H. Key Philol. Ess. 177 The t [in tother] is due to..Provection, having been transferred from the end of the preceding word, just as in ‘for the nonce’, in place of ‘for then once’. 1872 F. Hall Rec. Exempl. False Philol. 6 A like instance of the provection of n is seen in the ‘no nother cause of varyaunce’ of Sir Thomas More. 1999 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 June 1758 The process by which these changes occurred is called metanalysis... Although an older word, provection, already existed, it covered only those cases in which the letter n was take over by the new word and not those in which it was lost to the indefinite article. ΚΠ 1891 J. Rhŷs Stud. Arthurian Legend vii. 165 To be explained as a result of another mythological provection, which in some instances thrust the Culture Hero into the place of the more ancient head of the Celtic pantheon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1652 |
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