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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cantiō, from canere (“to sing”). Doublet of chanson and canzone.
Noun
cantion (plural cantions)
- (obsolete, rare) A song, poem or incantation.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Hugh Singleton, , →OCLC; reprinted as H Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender , London: John C. Nimmo, , 1890, →OCLC:the same person was brought in singing a Cantion of Colin's making
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