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单词 avisioun
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avisioun

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • avysioun, avysyon, avision, avisyon, advisioun, avysyoun

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French avision; equivalent to a- + visioun.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /avizˈjuːn/, /aˈvizjun/, /adˈvizjun/

Noun

avisioun (plural avisiouns)

  1. A vision; an illusory image, apparition or mirage (especially in one's rest).
  2. A religious experience or event; a divine vision or foretelling (especially in one's rest)
  3. (rare) An retelling of a vision or foretelling; a narrative about a vision.
    • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Nun's Priest's Tale", The Canterbury Tales:
      Macrobeus, that writ the avisioun / In Affrike of the worhty Cipioun, / Affermeth dremes, and seith that they been / Warnynge of thynges, that men after seen.

Descendants

  • English: avision (obsolete)
  • Scots: avisioun (obsolete)

References

  • avisiǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-27.
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