evolvement

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English

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Etymology

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From evolve +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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evolvement (countable and uncountable, plural evolvements)

  1. Evolution. [from 19th c.]
    • 1979, Charles Bukowski, letter, 6 February, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 153:
      I'm into the film script with Barbet, 30 or so pages; but I'm surprised—he wants a plot and an evolvement of character. shit, my characters seldom evolve, they are too fucked-up.
    • 2013, Victoria Cochrane, Raising the Energies of Mother Earth Towards and After Ascension 2012:
      The blessings come in the knowing that the lessons were not in vain, that the hard times and the good times were all leading to the evolvement of the spirit into a master of the highest order []