preëmption

See also: preemption, préemption, and pre-emption

English

Etymology

From Latin prae- (“before”) + ēmptiō (“buying”), from ēmptus, perfect passive participle of emō (“buy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹiːˈɛmp.ʃən/

Noun

preëmption (countable and uncountable, plural preëmptions)

1. Rare spelling of preemption.
   • 1906, Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe, The History of North America, page 255:

     All the foreigners who had served therein were entitled to homesteads, many lands were open to preëmption by foreigners…

   • 2004, John Wesley Powell, The Arid Lands, page 37:

     No person can exercise the preëmption right who is already the owner of 320 acres of land.

   • 2005, Mari Sandoz, Old Jules, page 94:

     “If you had two hundred dollars to pay on your preëmption you could borrow some.”

   • 2022, Elizabeth Kolbert, A Lake in Florida Suing to Protect Itself, page 14:

     The hope was to preëmpt the preëmption of laws like Orange County’s.

Related terms

• preëmpt
• preëmptible
• preëmptioner
• preëmptive
• preëmptively
• preëmptor
• preëmptory

References

• • “preëmption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC., see page 1128.

Anagrams

• peremption