designment

American  

[dih-zahyn-muhnt] / dɪˈzaɪn mənt /

noun

Obsolete.

1. design; plan.

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Etymology

Origin of designment

First recorded in 1560–70; design + -ment

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Example Sentences

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designment

What to this hour successively is done   Was full of peril, to our honor small,   Naught to our first designment, if we shun   The purposed end, or here lie fixed all.

From Jerusalem Delivered by Edward Fairfax

Second, That by the will of God, we also understand his order and designment.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan

Hauing buried onely in a preparation a great masse of substance, wherby his estate was impaired, his minde yet not dismaid he continued his former designment and purpose to reuiue this enterprise, good occasion seruing.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Richard Hakluyt

And therefore he was straight sent unto by the Duchess to go for Ireland, according to the first designment.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

That was only a typical designment by special promise, because Christ was to come of that line; it was therefore established in David's family for typical reasons, that cannot be now alledged.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

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