responsion
English
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editNoun
editresponsion (plural responsions)
- (rare) An answer or reply; a response.
- (UK, education, historical, in the plural) The first of three examinations once required for an academic degree at the University of Oxford; nicknamed the little go and generally taken around the time of matriculation.
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editReferences
edit- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “responsion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.