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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
Source-reported first-use century; no underlying manuscript witness was directly inspected.
Present-Day English14th centuryestablished
checkmate
English lexicographic first-use report for checkmate
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- 1350
- LOCATOR
- First Known Use — verb
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERcheckmate ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 210 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Checkmate — Word History
- AUTHOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- mw-checkmate