- governation
- † goverˈnation
= governance, in various senses.Erroneously substituted for governance in some late MSS. (hence in certain editions) of Chaucer Astrol. Prol. 59 (‘the gouernance of a clokke’) and Somnours Tale 186 (‘Aron, that hadde the temple in gouernaunce’).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.