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parˈtitionment
[f. partition v. + -ment.]
1. The action or fact of partitioning; division into parts or shares; separation.
1864in Webster. 1875Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. xix. (ed. 5) 348 That greatest of public misfortunes, the partitionment of Poland. 1879Tyler Amer. Lit. xvii. II. 272 The..definite partitionment from Virginia of land that once belonged to it.
2. concr. A partition; a compartment.
1851I. Taylor Wesley (1852) 105 As to these partitionments within which soulless religionists are content to be penfolded, he walked over them unconsciously. |