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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
A secondary lexicographic year report. Etymonline gives the 1650s, so SET-U preserves the chronology dispute and does not claim coinage.
Present-Day English1606probable
legislation
Merriam-Webster source-reported English record
“English legislation in the law-making sense.”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- 1606
- LOCATOR
- First Known Use
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- probable
WORD DOSSIERlegislation ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 486 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Legislation — Definition and First Known Use
- AUTHOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- mw-legislation