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ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 57
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
Source-reported century for the noun. No specific medieval manuscript was directly inspected in this tranche.
Present-Day EnglishFirst known use reported as the 13th centuryestablished
lesson
Merriam-Webster first-known-use record for lesson
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- Not fixed
- LOCATOR
- First Known Use, noun
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERlesson ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 265 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Lesson — Definition and Word History
- AUTHOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- mw-lesson