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authority
English
Alternative forms
- authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /???t???ti/
- Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
- Rhymes: -???ti
Noun
authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)
- (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
- (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.
- New York Port Authority
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- have something on good authority
References
- authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
- authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
authority From the web:
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authorship
English
Alternative forms
- authourship (obsolete)
Etymology
author +? -ship
Noun
authorship (countable and uncountable, plural authorships)
- The quality or state of being an author; the function or dignity of an author.
- The source; origin; origination
- We are unaware of the authorship of this book
Translations
References
- authorship in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
authorship From the web:
- what authorship clues did the url
- what authorship did the url provide
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