English edit

Etymology edit

dis- +‎ settlement

Noun edit

dissettlement (plural dissettlements)

  1. (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

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