retardment
English
Etymology
Compare Middle French and French retardement.
Noun
retardment (countable and uncountable, plural retardments)
- Retardation; the act of retarding or delaying.
- 1653, François Rabelais, Thomas Urquhart (translator), Gargantua and Pantagruel
- And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
- 1653, Henry Cogan, The voyages and adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, translation of original by Fernão Mendes Pinto:
- And forasmuch as his return hath been longer then I looked for, I have sent thus expressly to know both of him, and of you, the cause of this retardment of his.
- 1920, William Cecil Pendleton, History of Tazewell county and southwest Virginia: 1748-1920, page 657:
- Despite the retardments occasioned by the war, and the heavy financial loss suffered from the freeing of 1200 slaves in Tazewell, the wealth of the county was not seriously impaired.
- 1653, François Rabelais, Thomas Urquhart (translator), Gargantua and Pantagruel
Translations
retardation — see retardation
References
- “retardment”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
- retardment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913