Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint.
- noun Opposition; resistance; refutation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.
- noun obsolete Opposition; resistance; hostility.
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- noun
Control .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lenoir — rouleau to rouleau, bank-note to bank-note, war for war, controlment for controlment — all the minor punters and gamblers ceased their peddling play, and looked on in silence, round the verdant plain where the great combat was to be decided.
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April came to me towards autumn, and who wrote back from Virginia with war for war, controlment for controlment.
The Virginians 2006
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Yea, but you must not make the full show of this till you may do it without controlment.
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And this he did without controlment, euen in that citie, which these many yeres hath trafficked with Island to the great gaine, and commodity of the citizens.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And this he did without controlment, euen in that citie, which these many yeres hath trafficked with Island to the great gaine, and commodity of the citizens.
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"But the vow of a widow or of a woman divorced, no man had power to disallow of, for her estate was free from controlment" (Klein 50).
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993
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"A miracle," says Horne, "is a sensible suspension or controlment of, or deviation from, the known laws of nature."
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Yea; but you must not make the full show of this till you may do it without controlment.
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No king should have the sole government: it was never the mind of those who received a king to rule them, to lay all government upon him, to do what he pleaseth, without controlment.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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Do what he will, let God take order with it; this leadeth kings to atheism, let them do what they please, and to take God in their own hand: in regard of laws, they teach nothing to kings but tyranny: and in regard of government, they teach a king to take an arbitrary power to himself, to do what he pleaseth without controlment.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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