preëmption

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

• IPA^(key): /pɹiːˈɛmp.ʃən/

preëmption (plural preëmptions)

1. Rare spelling of preemption.
   • 1906, Guy Carleton Lee & Francis Newton Thorpe, The History of North America, p255

     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, p37

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

   • 2005, Mari Sandoz, Old Jules, p94

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

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

• • preëmption in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913., see page 1128.

• peremption