passage

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309 So soon as their passage was assured, Hartley, "acting on an understanding with Lord North,"[53] dispatched copies to Franklin.

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  1. noun The act or process of passing, especially:
  2. noun A movement from one place to another, as by going by, through, over, or across; transit or migration.
  3. noun The process of elapsing: the passage of time.

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from passer, to pass; see pass.
  2. French, from passager, to execute a passage, alteration (influenced by passer, to pass) of passéger, from Italian passeggiare, from passare, to pass, from Vulgar Latin *passāre, from Latin passus, step; see pace1.

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  1. from Middle English passage, from Old French passage, French passage = Spanish pasaje = Portuguese passagem = Italian passaggio, from Middle Latin passaticum, right of passage, also, after Roman, passagium, passage, right of passage, toll for passage, a pass, way, road, canal, etc., from passare, pass: see pass, v.
  2. from Frenchpassager; from the noun.
 

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