repairment
English
Etymology
Mid 19th century, from repair + -ment. Compare Middle English repairment, repeirement, repeyrement (“a callus at the fracture of a bone; a repair of a fracture”), after Latin reparāmentum.[1]
Noun
repairment (countable and uncountable, plural repairments)
- The act of repairing.
Synonyms
- (a renewing): reparation
References
- “repairment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “repairment, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.