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One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.

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What is the earliest secure English humiliation witness?

Merriam-Webster publishes the Middle English form humiliacioun, and Harvard’s Chaucer corpus indexes one occurrence. This review did not inspect an underlying manuscript, prove an exact composition year, or establish that no earlier English occurrence survives.

WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 317

humiliation

/hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/ · noun

The act, state, or instance of humiliating or being humiliated; degradation, disgrace, or shame.

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DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE

2 SOURCES WITH A STANCE

A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.

02 / EDITORIAL STATE

THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN.

CONFIDENCE
probable
STATUS
open
LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
The evidence supports a late-fourteenth-century Middle English record, not a directly inspected first object.
RESOLUTION NOTE

Promote a specific manuscript or early edition leaf only after facsimile inspection, textual-location verification, and a defensible date.