dissettlement
English edit
Etymology edit
dis- + settlement
Noun edit
dissettlement (plural dissettlements)
- (archaic) The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.
- 1677, Andrew Marvell, An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England:
- Never was so much sense contained in so few words. No conveyancer could ever in more compendious or binding terms have drawn a dissettlement of the whole birth-right of England.
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
- 'Tis an instrument of mischief and dissettlement to be courted by those who would have change
References edit
- “dissettlement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.