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preparement

preparement noun: preparation.

Noun

preparement (countable and uncountable, plural preparements)

  1. Preparation.
    • Whose highness, so far off by distance of place, so endued with felicity which oftentimes might cause oblivion, and continually busied with manifold weighty matters concerning the governance of his realm, yet nevertheless among such exceeding occasions of impediment, hath never suffered the...a. 1541, letter to Margaret Tudor; quoted in Mary Anne Everett Green, “Margaret, Eldest Daughter of Henry VII.”, in Lives of the Princesses of England, from the Norman Conquest, volume IV, London...
    • To the mount of Cethro, wher Venus doth dwel / The preparement made is so farre exceding / That of such triumphe no storyes doth tel / That is aboue al other so farre transcending / And for the whyle, she had me by copying / Of these complayntes which doth folow / And after that I should know the...[1563?], The Courte of Venus. Newly and Diligently Corrected with Many Proper Ballades Newly Amended, and Also Added Thervnto Which Haue Not Before Bene Imprinted., [London]: [T. Marshe], folios 2...

Examples of preparement in a sentence

  • His feare in him begets delay, and delay breedes that he feares, danger: the souldier that dares not fight, affoords the Enemie too much aduantage for his preparement;[1623?], Owin Felltham, Resolues Diuine, Morall Politicall, London: […] [George Purslowe] for Henry Seile, page 126:
  • I fly, my Lord—And ere I go wait but to be informed, / That mine preparement may accord with it, / How far may point this destination?1829, Thomas Doubleday, Dioclesian. A Dramatic Poem., London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., act III, scene I, page 105:
  • Preparement of Rolls for Payment of Central India Prize Money1870, T. L. Behan, Bulletins and Other State Intelligence for the Year 1867. In Two Parts. Compiled and Arranged from the Official...
  • Instead of being taken to the Morgue the remains were turned over to an undertaker for preparement for burial.1891 November 1, “William Center’s Career Closed. Suicide of the Nephew of the Founder of the Mission. He Went Into the Basement and Shot...

Forms of preparement

pluralpreparements

Origin of preparement

From prepare + -ment; perhaps modelled on Middle French preparement; compare Medieval Latin praeparāmentum.

Questions about preparement

What does preparement mean?
Preparement means preparation.
How do you use preparement in a sentence?
His feare in him begets delay, and delay breedes that he feares, danger: the souldier that dares not fight, affoords the Enemie too much aduantage for his preparement;
What part of speech is preparement?
Preparement is a noun.
What is the plural of preparement?
The plural of preparement is preparements.

Words near preparement in the dictionary

  1. prepared up
  2. preparedly
  3. preparedness
  4. preparednesses
  5. preparedst
  6. preparement
  7. preparements
  8. preparental
  9. preparenthood
  10. preparer
  11. preparers

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