returnment
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returnment (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare) A return; a moving back.
- 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:
- Sometimes vve yeelded, but like a Ramme / That makes returnement to redouble ſtrength, / Then forc't them yeeld […]