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Etymology[]
From Old French lectiun, from Latin lectionem, from legere ‘to read’.
Pronunciation[]
- IPA: /ˈlɛkʃən/
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Lection ({{{1}}})
- (obsolete) The act of reading.
- Template:Ecclesiastical A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.
- 1885: This man [...] came to dwell in our city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by his litanies and his lections of the Koran — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13
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