Talk:abattlement
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OED's only cite is Middle English. EEBO turns up one instance where it's being glossed, nothing else. Since it's "abataylment" in the OED cite the Middle English probably needs to be somewhere else, the MED has it at abatailment with the same lone quote. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 16:10, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
- The form abatelement was just deleted a month ago: Talk:abatelement. Can we speedy this? This, that and the other (talk) 23:06, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
- AFAICT this word is unrelated to that one and should stand or fall on its own merits. "Abatelement" was defined as English for "abatement" but only (possibly) existed as a French word for a practice relating to merchants, whereas "abattlement" is defined as English for "battlement" but apparently exists only as a Middle English word for that. - -sche (discuss) 08:16, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
- This book quotes Yeats as using it:
- 2011 May 18, Sam Alaine, A Heap of Broken Images, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 55:
- My Soul I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, Upon the broken crumbling abattlement, Upon the breathless starlit air, Upon the star that marks the hidden pole; […] William Butler Yeats, "A Dialogue of Self and Soul"
- but other editions of Yeats have battlement. Beyond that all I've found are scannos of a battlement, 'battlement(s). - -sche (discuss) 03:25, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
- Failed. - -sche (discuss) 21:00, 22 December 2023 (UTC)