revocationn.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French revocacion, revocation (French révocation ) the return of humankind to righteousness (end of the 13th cent. in Old French in tans de revocacion : see below), cancellation, annulment (c1300), action of drawing something back (a1365, originally in a medical context with specific reference to humours), action or act of recalling a person, summons (1400), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin revocātiōn-, revocātiō action of summoning back or recalling, cancellation, annulment, in post-classical Latin also retraction, recantation (14th cent. in British sources; 16th cent. in a continental source) < revocāt- , past participial stem of revocāre revoke v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan revocacion (14th cent.), Spanish revocación (first half of the 14th cent.), Portuguese revocaçâo (1435 as reuocaçon ), Italian revocazione (a1309; also †rivocazione ). Compare revoking n.With time of revocation in quot. c1500 at sense 3a compare post-classical Latin tempus revocationis , in same sense (12th cent., contrasting with tempus deviationis ‘time of deviation’, denoting the time from the Fall to the time of Moses, which is taken in Christian theology as an era of increasing transgressions of humankind against God), Old French tans de revocacion (end of the 13th cent.; in later use frequently contrasting with Middle French tamps de deviacion ‘time of deviation’). With letters of revocation at sense 3a compare Middle French lettres de revocation (early 15th cent.).