comfortment

English

Etymology

From comfort +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌmfə(ɹ)tmənt/

Noun

comfortment (usually uncountable, plural comfortments)

1. (obsolete) comforting, The act of providing comfort.
   • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

     the gentle comfortment and entertainment of the said embassador

References

• “comfortment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.