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dissettlement en · NOUN

Etymology

From dis- + settlement.

Meanings

1. (archaic) The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.
   • Never was so much sense contained in so few words. No conveyancer could ever in more compendious or binding terms have drawn a dissettlement of the whole birth-right of England. 1677, Andrew Marvell, An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England:
   • 'Tis an instrument of mischief and dissettlement to be courted by those who would have change 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:

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