inurement
(ɪˈnjʊəmənt)
Also 7 en-.
[f. inure v. + -ment.]
The action of inuring, or state of being inured; habituation.
| 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 44 An allurement and inurement to unthriftines. 1611 [see enurement]. a 1639 Wotton Educ. in Reliq. (1651) 319 Education being nothing else but a constant plight and Inurement. 1828 P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 301 Our feelings, at first melted by the sight of every moving spectacle, defy by gradual inurement the most horrific! 1874 Pusey Lent. Serm. 264 Awakening the soul from the hopeless inurements in sin. |