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ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 201
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
Source-reported first-use horizon; no underlying 1534 object was directly inspected, and the date is not treated as proof of coinage.
Present-Day Englishcirca 1534 first known useestablished
humiliate
Merriam-Webster first-known-use report
“circa 1534, in the meaning defined above”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- 1534
- LOCATOR
- Word History: First Known Use
- REPOSITORY
- Merriam-Webster
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERhumiliate ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 993 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Humiliate — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use
- AUTHOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- mw-humiliate