withdrawment Now rare.
(wɪðˈdrɔːmənt)
[f. withdraw v. + -ment.]
= withdrawal in various senses; formerly spec. the withdrawal of divine illumination.
| 1640 O. Sedgwick Christs Counsell 79 All the wrath of God, and the withdrawments of his love. 1666 G. Alsop Char. Prov. Mary-Land (1869) 64, I am certainly confident, that England would as soon feel her feebleness by withdrawment of so great an upholder. 1677 Gilpin Dæmonol. iii. xxiii. 195 An apparent withdrawment from Obedience. a 1709 J. Lister Autobiog. (1842) 52 He would sometimes say to me in the times of God's withdrawments, ‘O! son, I am not able to bear under God's absence’. 1754 Edwards Freed. Will ii. iii. 41 The Withdrawment or Absence of the Sun. 1817 Chalmers in Edin. Rev. Mar. 4 A great withdrawment of wealth from its former channels of distribution. 1885 Manch. Exam. 16 Sept. 5/2 The immediate withdrawment from an..expensive colonial policy. |