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indebtment

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English

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Etymology

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Compare French endettement.

Noun

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indebtment (countable and uncountable, plural indebtments)

  1. indebtedness
    • 1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead:
      Fear thou a worse prison, if thou wilt needs wilfully live and die in a just indebtment, when thou mayest be at once free and honest.