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representment1|rɛprɪˈzɛntmənt|
[-ment: cf. obs. F. représentement (Godef.).]
1. The act of representing in some form or figure; the fact of being so represented, or the result of such representation. Now rare (very common in 17th c.).
1594Daniel Cleopatra v. ii, Which Representments seeing, worse than Death She deem'd to yield to Life. 1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar 253 In rememoration, and for more effectuall representment of the Prototype. 1642Jer. Taylor Episc. (1647) 288 The Church is in the Bishop (viz. by representment) and the Bishop is in the Church (viz. as a Pilot in a ship). 1675Cave Antiq. Apost. (1702) 30 By this symbolick representment..God was teaching a new lesson. 1825Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 355 This secret Jove would extort from the Nous, or Prometheus, which is the sixth representment of Prometheus. 1877E. R. Conder Bas. Faith iv. 162 All those immediate judgments which the intellect passes on the presentments of sense, or the representments of memory [etc.].
†2. Representation by discourse or argument.
1640–1Ld. J. Digby Sp. in Ho. Com. 9 Feb. 11 Representment of inconvenience may bee made. 1653Milton Hirelings Wks. 1851 V. 337 So far approv'd, as to have bin trusted with the representment and defence of your Actions to all Christendom. 1680H. Dodwell Two Lett. (1691) 58 You cannot expect to prevail on men's interests, and inclinations, by a bare representment of the unreasonableness of their actions. |