English

Noun

retardment ‎(plural retardments)

1. Retardation; the act of retarding or delaying.
   • 1653, Henry Cogan, The voyages and adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, translation of original by Fernão Mendes Pinto:

     And forasmuch as his return hath been longer then I looked for, I have sent thus expressly to know both of him, and of you, the cause of this retardment of his.

   • 1920, William Cecil Pendleton, History of Tazewell county and southwest Virginia: 1748-1920‎, page 657:

     Despite the retardments occasioned by the war, and the heavy financial loss suffered from the freeing of 1200 slaves in Tazewell, the wealth of the county was not seriously impaired.

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References

• J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.
• retardment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913