dissettlement

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ settlement.

Noun

dissettlement (plural dissettlements)

1. (archaic) The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.
   • 1677, Andrew Marvell, An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England:

     Never was so much sense contained in so few words. No conveyancer could ever in more compendious or binding terms have drawn a dissettlement of the whole birth-right of England.

   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:

     'Tis an instrument of mischief and dissettlement to be courted by those who would have change

References

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