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wariment

wariment noun: wariness.

Noun

wariment (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Wariness.
    • the whiles were enterchaunged twixt them two ;
      Yet they were all with so good wariment1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • He is slow and full of wariment, and not without a mixture of fear[…]a. 1650, James Howell, Familiar letters; or Epistolae Ho-Elianae^(https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Familiar_letters;_or_Epistolae_Ho-Elianae_(IA_familiarletterso01howe).pdf&page=48...

Origin of wariment

From wary + -ment.

Questions about wariment

What does wariment mean?
Wariment means wariness.
What part of speech is wariment?
Wariment is a noun.

Words near wariment in the dictionary

  1. waridashi
  2. warier
  3. wariest
  4. warikahnite
  5. warily
  6. wariment
  7. warine
  8. warines
  9. wariness
  10. warinesses
  11. waring

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