endamagement
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare French endommagement.
Noun
[edit]endamagement (usually uncountable, plural endamagements)
- (obsolete) damage; injury; harm
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- These flags of France, that are advanced here
Before the eye and prospect of your town,
Have hither march'd to your endamagement
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “endamagement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)