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impartment en · NOUN

Etymology

From impart + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of imparting something, or the thing imparted; disclosure.
   • A psychiatrist has been held liable for consequent damages following the impartment of his diagnosis or of confidential information gained during treatment to third parties. 1973, Donald J. Dawidoff, chapter 3, in The Malpractice of Psychiatrists, Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, pages 33–34:
   • It [the ghost of Hamlet’s father] beckons you to go away with it, As if it some impartment did desire To you alone. c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
   • In proportion to an actor’s knowledge of human nature and human experience,—knowledge that he has assimilated through observation, thought, and suffering,—is the value of his artistic impartment to the world. 1910, William Winter, chapter 1, in Life and Art of Richard Mansfield, volume I, New York: Moffat, Yard & Co, page 25:
   • 1673, Nathaniel Wanley, The Wonders of the Little World, London: T. Basset et al., Book 4, Chapter 22 “Of the Ignorance of the Ancients, and others,” p. 401, It is not therefore the design of this Chapter to uncover the nakedness of our Fathers, so as to expose it to the petulancy of any, but rather to congratulate those further accessions of light and improvements in knowledge, which these latter Ages have attained unto, and to celebrate the wisdom and goodness of the great Creator, who hath not been so liberal in his impartments to our Progenitours, but that he hath reserved something wherewith to gratifie the modest inquiries, and industrious researches of after-times.
   • […] no slaveholding reader has any right to expect the impartment of such information. 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 21, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part I (Life as a Slave), page 322:

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