releasement

English

Etymology

release +‎ -ment

Noun

releasement (plural releasements)

1. (now rare) Release; the act of releasing or letting something go. [from 16th c.]
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, I.ii.3:

     [T]he conquering Don, seizing the fragments of the weapon of his vanquished enemy, went out in search of the lady for whose releasement he had fought […].

   • 1824, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II‎^[1]:

     On his releasement from prison, he learned that the beloved cause of his persecution had been forced to marry a nobleman, whose name he could not discover, but who had carried her to his castle near Bristol.

   • 1895, Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints‎^[2]:

     St. Eulogius himself was obliged by the persecutors to live always, after his releasement, with the treacherous bishop Reccafred, that wolf in sheep's clothing.

   • 1893, James Cook, Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World‎^[3]:

     Immediately upon getting this information I dispatch'd Mr. Hicks away in the Long boat with a strong party of men to rescue them but before he went Tootaha and the other Chiefs was made to understand that they must send some of their People with Mr. Hicks to shew him the place where our men were, and at the same time to send orders for their immediate releasement […].