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The 1617 date is source-reported for the noun’s forty-day sense. No underlying quotation or facsimile was directly inspected for this record.
Present-Day English1617established
quarantine
English noun lexicographic first-use record
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- 1617
- LOCATOR
- First Known Use
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERquarantine ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 42 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Quarantine — Word History
- AUTHOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- mw-quarantine