tendment

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noun

attendance; care

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Meanings

nountendment (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableattendance; care

    Meanwhile if chance some desp'rate patient die / […] / Whether ill-tendment, or recureless pain, / Procure his death […]

    1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC

Origin

From tend + -ment.

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APA

tendment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tendment

MLA

“tendment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tendment. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tendment,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tendment.

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