abortment

English

Etymology

abort + -ment

Noun

abortment (plural abortments)

  1. (obsolete) Abortion. [Attested from the early 17th century until the late 19th century.][1]

References

  1. Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], →ISBN), page 7
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