designment

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noun

One's design or plan; an objective, an undertaking.

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Meanings

noundesignment (countable and uncountable, plural designments)

plural designments

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableOne's design or plan; an objective, an undertaking.

    The second Bulwarke was the Hearing sence, / Gainst which the second troupe dessignment makes [...]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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    The deſperate Tempeſt has ſo bang'd the Turke, / That their deſignement halts; Another ſhippe of Venice hath ſeene / A greeuous wracke and ſufferance / On moſt part of the Fleete.

    c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 21

Origin

From design + -ment.

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MLA

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Chicago

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