wariment

English

Etymology

From wary +‎ -ment.

Noun

wariment (uncountable)

1. (rare, obsolete) Wariness.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     the whiles were enterchaunged twixt them two ;
     Yet they were all with so good wariment

   • a. 1650, James Howell, Familiar letters; or Epistolae Ho-Elianae‎^[1], published 1903, page 22:

     He is slow and full of wariment, and not without a mixture of fear […]

   • 2022, Michael Lamb, Joshua's Dream:

     Our primary matter is this: specialist Awkin analysts have pioneered such capability in cloning and cistron-devised therapies such that no-one today envisions a cessation of wariment or affect before 300 years of age.

References

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