abortment

English edit

Etymology edit

abort +‎ -ment

Noun edit

abortment (plural abortments)

(obsolete) Abortion. [Attested from the early 17^th century until the late 19^th century.]^[1]

References edit

^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abortment”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.

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