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Definition of Designment
1. n. Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.
Definition of Designment
1. Noun. (obsolete) One's design or plan; an objective, an undertaking. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Designment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Designment
Literary usage of Designment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"955 Of the Calling or designment of the Son of God to be an High Priest after the
... But what more than so ? a solemn calling or designment unto this high ..."
2. The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter: Being a Proof, with Moral by Henry Hawkes Spink, Henry Hawkes Spink, jr (1902)
"... of the mental phenomena known as the Gunpowder Plot, in which " the devil "
alone could " concur," but the simple exterior designment of the same, ..."
3. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition by William Law, Charles Bigg (1899)
"It is as certain, that every soul comes into the body at such a time, and in such
circumstances, by the express designment of God, according to some ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1865)
"... proceed accordingly from the strength of like reason in other cases and
instances, that there ought to be a warrant and designment in the word for them. ..."
5. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1809)
"... day appointed for the accomplishment ' of the said gentlemen's designment ...
keeper can ' have advertisement of the execution of the ' said designment, ..."
6. An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain: Chiefly of England, from the by Jeremy Collier (1840)
"... takes away from Adam (in his state of innocency) all freedom of will and
liberty not to sin ; for had he had freedom to have altered God's designment, ..."
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