aspectionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: ă-spĕk′shən
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /æˈspɛk.ʃən/; (also Received Pronunciation) /a-/, /-ˈspek-/
• (General Australian) IPA: /æˈspek.ʃən/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ɛˈspek.ʃən/
• (Scotland) IPA: /aˈspɛk.ʃən/, /aˈspɛk.ʃʌn/
• (India) IPA: /a(ː)ˈspɛ(ː)k.ʃon/

• 韻: -ɛkʃən
• ハイフネーション: as‧pec‧​tion

名詞

aspection (countable and uncountable, plural aspections)

1. (obsolete) The act of viewing; a look. [1646–1652]

   to take aspection of something

   • 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Baſilisk”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 120:

     […] that this deſtruction ſhould be the effect of the firſt beholder, or depend upon priority of aſpection, […]

   • 1652, John Gaule, Πῦς-μᾰντῐ́ᾱ (Pûs-măntĭ́ā). […], quoted in OED, London:

     To alter the aspect, or the aspection.

Further reading

• “aspection”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026, sourced from Noah Porter, editor, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary of the English Dictionary, London: George Bell & Sons and Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1913, →OCLC, retrieved 11 April 2026: “The act of viewing; a look.”
• “aspection, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000: “The action of looking at, beholding, viewing, watching.”
• “aspection, n.”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present: “archaic : viewing”
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “aspection, n.”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 339, column 3: “The act of viewing or looking upon; view.”.
• “Aspection, n.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC, retrieved 24 November 2011: “The act of viewing; a look.”
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “aspection, n.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 339, column 3: “The act of viewing or looking upon; view.”
• Noah Webster (1828), “Aspection”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC, column 2: “The act of viewing.”

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