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It defies the usual pattern where Middle English-cionreverts to Latin type and becomes-tion. Specific sense in reference to government by force, ostensibly to suppress disorder, emerged from 19c. British policies in Ireland. "As the word has had, in later times, a bad flavour, suggesting th...
[Middle English probacion, a testing, from Old French probation, from Latin probātiō, probātiōn-, from probātus, past participle of probāre, to test; see prove.]pro·ba′tion·al adj. pro·ba′tion·al·ly adv. pro·ba′tion·ar′y adj....
In Latin, after radical-s-the-tionis regularly-sion(comparemission,passion). In Middle English, in words via Old French, it often was-cion, later regularized to-tion(incoercionandsuspicion, however, the-c-belongs to the base). Entries linking to-tion ...