muniment

American  

[myoo-nuh-muhnt] / ˈmju nə mənt /

noun

1. Law. muniments, a document, as a title deed or a charter, by which rights or privileges are defended or maintained.

2. Archaic. a defense or protection.

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muniment British  

/ ˈmjuːnɪmənt /

noun

1. rare a means of defence

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Etymology

Origin of muniment

1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin mūnīmentum document (e.g., title, deed) for use in defense against a claimant, Latin: defense, protection, originally, fortification, equivalent to mūnī ( re ) to fortify + -mentum -ment

Example Sentences

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muniment

In the light of Sprot’s real confessions, hitherto lying in the Haddington muniment room, we know the Indictment to be a false and garbled document. 

From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang

It stands in a small room over the south end of the west porch, which may once have been a muniment room.

From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark

Against this theory, however, it might be urged that the muniment room at the angle of the south-east transept is identified as the ancient treasury.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum by Gleeson White

In the central one, which is used as a muniment room, there is preserved an invaluable curiosity, an original copy of the Magna Charta of King Henry III.

From The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot

The Past, with its stories, the stories that Mr Lambert's apprentice told her had been found in the muniment room at St Mary's, seemed to live before her.

From Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century by Emma Marshall