removement

[ree-moov-muhnt]

noun

1. an uncommon variant of removal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of removement¹

First recorded in 1845–50; remove ( def. ) + -ment ( def. )

Example Sentences

The period of the forcible removement of our women into concentration camps had not yet come, and now there were many women at Ventersburg requiring support.

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If the offense be persisted in after this, sentence is to be pronounced by the local tribunals, and often consists in temporary removement to some distant and thinly-populated district, or incorporation in one of the penal labor companies.

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Will you, whenever these dreadful preliminaries, the provisional removement &c. when they are proceeded with,—will you do—all you can—suggest every regard to decency and proper feeling to the persons concerned?

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