Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In philology, the carrying of a terminal letter from a word to the next succeeding one, when it begins with a vowel, as the tone for that one, the tother for that other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Philol.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics The carrying forward of a final
consonant to a followingword , as in "nickname" for "an ekename".
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin provectio an advancement.
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Examples
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We could expect such a fastidious foe of provection to need no napron to eat an ewt.
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Examples of provection are a nickname < an ekename
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