preconization
English edit
Etymology edit
From preconize + -ation, compare French préconisation.
Noun edit
preconization (plural preconizations)
- A publishing by proclamation; a public proclamation.
- 1649, Bishop Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience:
- The time was, when the minister, in a solemn preconization, called you either then to speak, or for ever after to hold your peace: had you then spoken, it might have been construed as zeal; now, not to hold your peace, will be interpreted no better than malice.
- A formal approbation by the pope of a person nominated to an ecclesiastical dignity.
- 1856, James L. Chapman, Americanism Versus Romanism:
- a preconization of apostates like Gavazzi and Achilli
References edit
- “preconization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.