preëmption
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English
Etymology
From Latin prae- (“before”) + ēmptiō (“buying”), from ēmptus, perfect passive participle of emō (“buy”).
Pronunciation
Noun
preëmption (countable and uncountable, plural preëmptions)
- 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
References
- “preëmption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC., see page 1128.