diseasement

English

Etymology

disease +‎ -ment

Noun

diseasement (plural diseasements)

1. (obsolete) uneasiness; inconvenience
   • 1606, Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Plantations in Ireland:

     it is not probable that men of great means and plentiful estate will endure the travel , diseasements , and adventures of going thither in person

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “diseasement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• desemantise, mediateness