Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Blast; a sudden stroke of some destructive cause.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
sudden strike orinjury ; apernicious thing.
Etymologies
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blast (in the sense of something bad) + -ment
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Examples
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She thought of love as a fountain spring, a spring into which you could not both cast defilement and drink of waters undefiled; as an altar flame fed with incense lighting the darkness; and one could no more offend love with impurity, than cast the dung heap on the altar flame and not expect blastment.
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