returnment

noun

returnment

noun

Etymology From return + -ment.

1

Obsolete, Rare 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:

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