Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of dividing; partition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of partitioning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
partitioning .
Etymologies
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partition + -ment
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Examples
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Fourth Crusade, in the partitionment which followed, Athens and the rest of Greece were given to Boniface, King of Thessalonika.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The Cornhill Magazine of June, 1890, speaking of the partitionment of Liberia among the powers mentioned, says: "The territory now known as
My life and work, 1885
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