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ignorement

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Etymology

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From ignore +‎ -ment.

Noun

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ignorement (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The act of ignoring something.
    • 1881, Benjamin Wills Newton, Aids to Prophetic Enquiry, page 375:
      The ignorement of laws, natural and revealed, hitherto recognised as proceeding from God, and the ignorement in many cases of the fact of His existence, must necessarily introduce a radical change into the order of society.
    • 1900, Public Opinion, volume 28, page 629:
      These bands have been lauded so persistently as public educators that the visitor dares not overlook them - in fact, he could not even if he would; they are far too noisy for ignorement.