Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled; disturbance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.
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- noun archaic The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.
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Examples
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"dissettlement," and the migration of his father to the house of John, with whom he was moreover better in accord in religion and politics.
Life of John Milton Richard Garnett 1870
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Of the proposed oath Marvell says, “No Conveyancer could ever in more compendious or binding terms have drawn a dissettlement of the whole birthright of England.”
Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905
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The surrender of Reading to the Parliamentary forces in April, 1643, involved his “dissettlement,” and the migration of his father to the house of John, with whom he was moreover better in accord in religion and politics.
Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890
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