indebtment

English

Etymology

Compare French endettement.

Noun

indebtment (countable and uncountable, plural indebtments)

1. indebtedness
   • 1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC:

     Fear thou a worse prison, if thou wilt needs wilfully live and die in a just indebtment, when thou mayest be at once free and honest.