governation

governation
goverˈnation
[f. govern v. + -ation.]
= 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’).

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