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provection|prəʊˈvɛkʃən|
[ad. late L. prōvectiōn-em, n. of action f. prōveh-ĕre: see above.]
†1. Advance, proficiency; advancement. Obs.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 264 Master Duncan Liddel was then of that maturity of age and provection of skil in most of the disciplines mathematical. 1660J. Lloyd Prim. Episc. 8 He [Clemens Alexandrinus] saith, that here in the Church the provections or proficiencies of Bishops, Presbyters, Deacons, be imitations of the angelical glory.
2. Philology.
a. The sound-shift (lautverschiebung) of consonants formulated for Teutonic langs. in Grimm's Law; esp. in Celtic, the mutation of voice consonants to breath consonants (e.g. of g, d, b, v to k, t, p, f), which occurs in certain circumstances in the Celtic languages.
1861Whitley Stokes Middle-Cornish Poem in Trans. Philol. Soc. App. 83 Observe the provection [of d to t] after y; the reason being that y stands for yt = ate; thus: ma-y trehevys [from drehevys]. 1873–5Rhŷs in Revue Celtique II. 331 Other instances of this kind of provection of mute consonants following l or r. 1877― Lect. Welsh Philol. ii. 67 When gg becomes cc and the like: this kind of mutation may, in default of a more appropriate term, be called provection. Ibid. vii. 348 When it is said..that the f of [feather] is the p of [πτερον] subjected to provection.
b. The carrying on of the final letter of a word to the succeeding one.
1868Key Philol. Ess. 177 The t [in tother] is due to..Provection, having been transferred from the end of the preceding word, just as in ‘for the nonce’, in place of ‘for then once’. 1872F. Hall Rec. Exemp. False Philol. 6 A like instance of the provection of n is seen in the ‘no nother cause of varyaunce’ of Sir Thomas More.
3. The carrying forward of something into the place of something else; substitution.
1891Rhŷs Stud. Arthur. Leg. vii. 165 To be explained as a result of another mythological provection, which in some instances thrust the Culture Hero into the place of the more ancient head of the Celtic pantheon. |