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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
Century-level source report; no underlying thirteenth-century object was directly inspected.
Present-Day English13th centuryestablished
truce
Merriam-Webster first-known-use report for truce
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- Not fixed
- LOCATOR
- First Known Use, noun
- REPOSITORY
- Merriam-Webster
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERtruce ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 714 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Truce — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use
- AUTHOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- mw-truce