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Webster 1913 Edition
Lavishment
Lav′ish-ment
(-ment)
, Noun.
The act of lavishing.
Definition 2024
lavishment
lavishment
English
Noun
lavishment (countable and uncountable, plural lavishments)
- The act of lavishing.
- 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter II:
- At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.
- 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter II: