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comfortment

/ˈkʌmfə(ɹ)tmənt/

comfortment noun: comforting, The act of providing comfort.

Noun

comfortment (usually uncountable, plural comfortments)

  1. (obsolete, usually) comforting, The act of providing comfort.
    • the gentle comfortment and entertainment of the said embassador1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC

Forms of comfortment

pluralcomfortments

Origin of comfortment

From comfort + -ment.

Questions about comfortment

What does comfortment mean?
Comfortment means comforting, The act of providing comfort.
What part of speech is comfortment?
Comfortment is a noun.
How do you pronounce comfortment?
Comfortment is pronounced /ˈkʌmfə(ɹ)tmənt/.
What is the plural of comfortment?
The plural of comfortment is comfortments.

Words near comfortment in the dictionary

  1. comfortizes
  2. comfortizing
  3. comfortless
  4. comfortlessly
  5. comfortlessness
  6. comfortment
  7. comfortments
  8. comfortress
  9. comfortresses
  10. comfortroot
  11. comfortroots

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