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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1515-1549
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Progressio(u)n(e, n. [e.m.E. and ME progression (Chaucer), -ioun, -yon, F. progression (1425 in Hatz.-Darm.), L. progressiō, -iōnis, a going forward, advancement, n. of action f. progrēdī to proceed.] a. The fact, or manner, of proceeding or developing. b. A series or succession. Be … progressioun, in succession. c1515 Asloan MS I 327/27.
The scripturis … may be wnderstand in four maner of ways … with iiij manere of progressionis, that is, the hicht the depnes the lenth and the breid of haly scripture — 1531 Bell. Boece I 6.
Of this Hiber discendit, be lang progressioun, ane gret posterite 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 47/29.
& sa be progressione and ordur euyrie spere inclosis the spere that is nerest tyl it
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