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.

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  • noun archaic A sudden strike or injury; a pernicious thing.

Etymologies

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blast (in the sense of something bad) + -ment

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Examples

  • 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.

    The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

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