removementn.
/rᵻˈmuːvm(ə)nt/, U.S. /rəˈmuvm(ə)nt/, /riˈmuvm(ə)nt/ Now chiefly U.S.
1. The action of moving away or from place to place; an instance of this. Now rare.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun]
haika1529
peregrination1548
itineration1623
removement1630
peripateticism1820
itinerancy1825
itineracy1827
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 495 In their travels and removement they are governed by their Stars, and observing the North pole, they settle according to its motion.
1701 W. Pudsey Constit. & Laws Eng. Consider'd 196 It may be removed into the King's-Bench: And this Writ is sued for the Plaintiff without putting any Cause in the Writ of Removement.
1851 Littell's Living Age 9 Aug. 256/1 Sentence..often consists in temporary removement to some distant and thinly-populated district.
1916 Van Wert (Ohio) Daily Bull. 15 Aug. A direct order has been issued to the officers in command of Camp Willis..to suspend all preparations of removement to the Mexican border.
1950 Jrnl. Mammalogy 31 70 While watching from the baled straw blind, I had seen a second example of litter removement to a new den.
2. The action of removing or taking away; removal; an instance of this.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away
withdrawingc1315
remuingc1330
withdraught1340
taking awaya1382
discharginga1398
removinga1398
remotiona1425
subtraction?a1425
amovingc1443
taking offc1450
abstraction1467
way-taking1479
substracting1549
conveyance1567
sublation1567
remove1589
removal1595
exemption1598
substraction1601
supporting1608
amovement1618
subductiona1620
conveying1621
amolitiona1641
withdrawment1640
subducting1645
suffuration1651
summotion1653
amoval1657
withdraw1720
withdrawal1838
removement1846
1846 R. C. Trench Christ Desire of All Nations v. 98 All the alleviations and removements of pain and disease.
1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised i. 48 The derangement in the complex mechanism had hindered the removement of the pollinia.
1904 Robesonian (Lumberton, N. Carolina) 14 June 5/1 The removement of these structures will add much to..Main street, where modern brick buildings will doubtless be erected in the near future.
1963 P. H. Gulliver Social Control in Afr. Society iv. xi. 288 In some cases, confession must be accompanied by ritual removement of further danger.
2007 FD Wire (Nexis) 31 Jan. There has been some removement of orders but nothing that we are concerned about at the moment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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