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returnment en · NOUN

Etymology

From return + -ment.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, rare, uncountable) A return; a moving back.
    • Sometimes vve yeelded, but like a Ramme / That makes returnement to redouble ſtrength, / Then forc't them yeeld […] 1606, [Thomas Heywood], The Second Part of, If You Know Not Me, You Know No Bodie. […], London: […] [Thomas Purfoot] for Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, signature K, verso: