PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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The documented chronology points the other way: Middle English humiliacioun is evidenced in Chaucer, whereas Merriam-Webster reports the English verb humiliate only circa 1534. Both English words descend through the Latin humilis family; the noun is not modeled as a modern English derivative of the later-attested verb.
/hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/ · noun
The act, state, or instance of humiliating or being humiliated; degradation, disgrace, or shame.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Documents the earlier noun record in an edited Middle English corpus.
Chaucer humiliacioun occurrencePublishes the later English verb horizon.
First Known Use: circa 1534 for humiliatePublishes the noun’s Middle English stage.
Etymology: Middle English humiliaciounThe canonical graph joins the two English words at Late Latin humiliātus and humiliāre rather than drawing a false English verb-to-noun ancestry edge.