Meanings
nounindebtment (countable and uncountable, plural indebtments)
plural indebtments
- countableuncountableindebtedness
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.
1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC
Origin
Compare French endettement.
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