Propagation, augmentation, increase: “this we came not to, only for p. of a dower remaining in the coffer of her friends, from whom we thought it meet to hide our love till time had made them for us,” Meas. I, 2, 154; i. e. to receive a richer dower than she was likely to have under the existing circumstances. Malone prorogation, Jackson procuration, Grant White preservation.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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