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tendment

tendment noun: attendance; care.

Noun

tendment (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) attendance; 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 of tendment

From tend + -ment.

Questions about tendment

What does tendment mean?
Tendment means attendance; care.
What part of speech is tendment?
Tendment is a noun.

Words near tendment in the dictionary

  1. tendinosi
  2. tendinosis
  3. tendinosus
  4. tendinous
  5. tendinously
  6. tendment
  7. tendo Achillis
  8. tendo calcaneus
  9. tendo-
  10. tendomuscular
  11. tendon

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