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Definition of Designments
1. designment [n] - See also: designment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Designments
Literary usage of Designments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the by Christopher Wordsworth (1853)
"His advancement did much strengthen the archbishop and his friends; and withal,
the earl of Leicester and his designments came soon after to an end. ..."
2. The Text of Shakespeare Vindicated from the Interpolations and Corruptions by Samuel Weller Singer (1853)
"An alteration which can hardly be subject to doubt or dispute, occurs where
Aufidius is descanting on the manner in which he had ' served the designments' ..."
3. A Historical Sketch of the Conflicts Between Jesuits and Seculars in the by Thomas Graves Law, Christopher Bagshaw (1889)
"... plots, and ‘bloody designments' set on foot against England by the pope or
others, mainly at the instigation of the jesuits. But if, urges the writer, ..."
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