*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 628

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 04regionalMAPPABLE REGION

14th-century Middle English and English

England

humility DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Middle English humilite and reported humylitee attest the noun before the modern spelling.

COORDINATES STORED
YES
HONEST TO PLOT
YES
PLACEMENT MODE
regional
TIME PRECISION
century
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The bounds preserve the source-reported century; the circa-1390 citation is evidence within it, not proof of the first use.

PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗
DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    Humility — American Heritage Dictionary

    Publishes the Middle English form.

    Middle English humiliteAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    Humblen — Middle English Dictionary entry and citations

    Publishes a located Middle English lexical occurrence.

    c1390 Chaucer CT.Pars. I.989: humyliteeAUDIT SOURCE ↗