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made mention of

made mention of is the simple past and past participle of make mention of.

Meaning of make mention of

Verb

make mention of (third-person singular simple present makes mention of, present participle making mention of, simple past and past participle made mention of)

  1. (formal, idiomatic) To briefly refer to something; to mention.
    • Likewiſe, whereſoever New Heavens, and a New Earth, are made mention of in the Bible, he underſtands them of a New Material World, whenas there was no ſuch Thing intended; for theſe Terms denote only a new State and Face of Things, viz. that bleſſed Millennium before treated of.1699, John Edwards, A compleat history, or Survey of all the dispensations and methods of religion, volume 1

Questions about made mention of

What is made mention of the simple past and past participle of?
Made mention of is the simple past and past participle of make mention of.

Words near made mention of in the dictionary

  1. made love to the camera
  2. made man
  3. made matters worse
  4. made men
  5. made mention
  6. made mention of
  7. made merry
  8. made mincemeat of
  9. made mincemeat out of
  10. made mockery of
  11. made money

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Adapted from Wiktionary: made mention of (page history and authors); make mention of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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