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NODE / 0080attestedPresent-Day English

intelligence

capacity to understand; information; an information service

DATE
14th century–today
SENSE
default
FAMILY
Indo-European / Germanic
CANONICAL KEY
node:1:intelligence:attested
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ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

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No reviewed descendants currently reuse this node. Absence describes the graph, not the entire history of the form.

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TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

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This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.

UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
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REVIEWED EDGES
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DEEPEST PATH
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MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
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No downstream edge has cleared review for this node. This is a graph-coverage statement, not a claim that the historical form produced nothing.

“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.

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RECORDED EVIDENCE

ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

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SOURCE-REPORTEDlexicographic first useestablished

Middle English lexical record

The date and form are source-reported. No manuscript or inscription facsimile has been directly inspected for this record.

intelligence dossier · recorded as intelligence
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted bookestablished

The PAPER-OFFICE entry in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum includes Letters of Intelligence among official papers communicated to the King’s Council.

Instructions for Foreign Ministers, Letters of Intelligence, and many other Publick Papers

intelligence dossier · recorded as intelligence
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EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

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