comfortment

English

Etymology

From comfort +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʌmfə(ɹ)tmənt/

Noun

comfortment (usually uncountable, plural comfortments)

  1. (obsolete) comforting, The act of providing comfort.
    • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
      the gentle comfortment and entertainment of the said embassador

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