Obs. Also 4 suspectioun, -eccioun, 4–5 -eccyon, 5–6 -eccion, -ectyon, 6 Sc. -ectione. [a. OF. s(o)uspection, ad. L. suspectio, -ōnem, in med.L. suspicion, f. suspect-, suspicĕre to SUSPECT: see -TION) = SUSPICION.
13[?]. Coer de L., 965. I took hem, thorwe suspeccyon,… to my prisoun.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, xxx. 9. To … haf ill susspeccioun of a trew frend.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., I. pr. iv. (1868), 20. My wijf and þe compaignie of myn honeste frendis,… defenden me of al suspeccioun [v.r. suspecion] of syche blame.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, I. lvi. (1869), 34. Ther mihte be gret suspeccion that in sum … cornere the filthe were heled or heped.
1487. Act 3 Hen. VII., c. 3. Prisoners and persones arrested for light suspeccion of felony.
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, vi. 148. Yf ye have ony suspectyon vpon me.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., XXXV. (Percy Soc.), 180. To cause a lady to have suspection Unto her true lover.
1553. T. Wilson, Rhet., 50. They make wise men ever after to have them in suspection.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 117. That yowe maye … bee owte of all suspection that yowe shal not bee deceaued.
1588. Parke, trans. Mendoza’s Hist. China, 219. Although they are without suspection of enimies.
1631. Chapman, Cæsar & Pompey, II. i. D iv. Suspected? what suspection should feare a friend?
1728. Earl of Ailesbury, Mem. (1890), 648. Prosecutions and suspections in relation to great malversations he was charged with.
