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designment

American  
[dih-zahyn-muhnt] / dɪˈzaɪn mənt /

noun

Obsolete.
  1. design; plan.


Etymology

Origin of designment

First recorded in 1560–70; design + -ment

Example Sentences

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Having buried, only in a preparation, a great mass of substance, whereby his estate was impaired, his mind yet not dismayed, he continued his former designment, and purposed to revive this enterprise, good occasion serving.

From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes

I am now to put in act an especial designment from my father Jove; but, that perform'd, I am for any fresh action that offers itself.

From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson

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

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan

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

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

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