devisement
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
devisement (plural devisements)
- Something devised or invented.
- 2007 November 11, “The Mother of All Rhymes”, in New York Times[1]:
- Praising nursery rhymes, Vita Sackville-West observed, The direct statement can seldom compare in aesthetic value with the oblique statement — which is probably the ultimate meaning that man sets on that strange devisement he calls art.
- The act of devising something
- 1904, James McSherry, History of Maryland, Baltimore, page 374:
- The devisement of schemes for the abolishment of slavery in the rebellious states should be frowned upon.