developement

English

Noun

developement (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of development.
   • 1814, William Brodie Gurney, The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane,^[1]:

     Gentlemen, the complete developement of this business, however, now approached.

   • 1818, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, chapter 2, Frankenstein or, the modern Prometheus^[2], edition 1831 ed.:

     "I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the developement of filial love."

   • 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found^[3]:

     "Pray, Mr. Truck," inquired S.R.P., "is it commonly thought in the English literary circles, that Byron was a developement of Shakspeare, or Shakspeare a shadowing forth of Byron?"