preservation
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See also: préservation
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French preservacion, from Medieval Latin preservatio. Morphologically preserve + -ation
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
preservation (countable and uncountable, plural preservations)
- The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
- 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Nature does not require
Her times of preservation, which, perforce
I give my tendence to
- Nature does not require
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Ecclesiastes 34:16:
- The eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, his is ther mighty protection, a preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling.
- c. 1600, Sir John Davies, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul
- Every seneseless thing by nature's light
Doth preservation seek, destruction shun
- Every seneseless thing by nature's light
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242:, Book II, Chapter XXI
- our all-wise Maker, suitably to our constitution and frame, and knowing what it is that determines the will, has put into man the uneasiness of hunger and thirst, and other natural desires, that return at their seasons, to move and determine their wills, for the preservation of themselves, and the continuation of their species
Translations[edit]
the act of preserving
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