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Etymology

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dis- +‎ forestation

Noun

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disforestation (usually uncountable, plural disforestations)

  1. Archaic form of deforestation.
    • 1618, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England:
      Disforestations.—And twelue Knights, or Legall men are chosen in euery shiere, vppon their Oath, to disparte the olde Forrests from the new []

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disforestation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.