bolsterment

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bolster +‎ -ment

Noun[edit]

bolsterment (uncountable)

  1. The process of bolstering.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      Because Caroline and Caleb had paid no attention to him when he made the first martini, he now made a second, for energy and general bolsterment, and officially considered it his first.