surchargement
English
Etymology
surcharge + -ment
Noun
surchargement (countable and uncountable, plural surchargements)
- (obsolete) The act of surcharging; a surcharge or surplus.
- 1612, Samuel Danyel [i.e., Daniel], “The Second Booke of the Historie of England: The Life of William. I”, in The First Part of the Historie of England, London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], OCLC 222288853, page 76:
- […] that continuall ſurchargement of people, as they were forced to vnburthen themſelues on other countries […]
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References
surchargement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913