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AccordmentAccordment Ac*cord"ment ([a^]k*k[^o]rd"ment), n. [OF.
acordement. See Accord, v.]
Agreement; reconcilement. [Obs.] --Gower. Affordment
Affordment Af*ford"ment, n.
Anything given as a help; bestowal. [Obs.]
Amendment
Amendment A*mend"ment, n. [F. amendement, LL. amendamentum.]
1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a
fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
2. In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be
made in a bill or motion by adding, changing,
substituting, or omitting.
3. (Law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
Syn: Improvement; reformation; emendation.
Astoundment
Astoundment As*tound"ment, n.
Amazement. --Coleridge.
Attendment
Attendment At*tend"ment, n. [Cf. OF. atendement.]
An attendant circumstance. [Obs.]
The uncomfortable attendments of hell. --Sir T.
Browne.
Befriendment
Befriendment Be*friend"ment, n.
Act of befriending. [R.]
Bombardment
Bombardment Bom*bard"ment, n. [F. bombardement.]
An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot
shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into
a town or fortified place.
Defraudment
Defraudment De*fraud"ment, n. [Cf. OF. defraudement.]
Privation by fraud; defrauding. [Obs.] --Milton.
Disbandment
Disbandment Dis*band"ment, n.
The act of disbanding.
Embedment
Embedment Em*bed"ment, n.
The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.
EnfoldmentEnfoldment En*fold"ment, n.
The act of infolding. See Infoldment. Infoldment
Infoldment In*fold"ment, n.
The act of infolding; the state of being infolded.
IntendmentIntendment In*tend"ment, n. [OE. entendement understanding,
insight, F. entendement, fr. LL. intendimentum. See
Intend.]
1. Charge; oversight. [Obs.] --Ford.
2. Intention; design; purpose.
The intendment of God and nature. --Jer. Taylor.
3. (Law) The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a
law, or of any legal instrument. Mandment
Mandment Mand"ment, n.
Commandment. [Obs.]
Mendment
Mendment Mend"ment, n.
Amendment. [Obs.]
Needment
Needment Need"ment, n.
Something needed or wanted. pl. Outfit; necessary luggage.
[Archaic] --Spenser.
Carrying each his needments. --Wordsworth.
Oddment
Oddment Odd"ment, n. [Odd + -ment.]
An odd thing, or one that is left over, disconnected,
fragmentary, or the like; something that is separated or
disconnected from its fellows; esp. (in pl.), the odds and
ends. Specif.: (Printing) Any separate small part or page in
a book, other than the text, such as the title page,
contents, etc.
A miscellaneous collection of riddles, charms, gnomic
verses, and ``oddments' of different kinds.
--Saintsbury.
Refundment
Refundment Re*fund"ment (-ment), n.
The act of refunding; also, that which is refunded. [R.]
--Lamb.
Remandment
Remandment Re*mand"ment (-ment), n.
A remand.
Rescindment
Rescindment Re*scind"ment (-ment), n.
The act of rescinding; rescission.
Retardment
Retardment Re*tard"ment, n. [Cf. F. retardement.]
The act of retarding; retardation. --Cowley.
Tendment
Tendment Tend"ment, n.
Attendance; care. [Obs.]
Unfoldment
Unfoldment Un*fold"ment, n.
The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded.
The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. --C.
Morris.
Withholdment
Withholdment With*hold"ment, n.
The act of withholding.
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