Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of imbuing, or the state of being imbued.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of imbuing, or state of being imbued.
  • noun A deep tincture.

Etymologies

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imbue +‎ -ment

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Examples

  • So, if the percipient of the claimed artwork is doing all the creative heavy lifting with imbuement, what exactly is left for the so-called artist to do?

    Alternative Film Guide 2009

  • Selection acts / does / selects, but then the final result in the imbuement of this 'archaeopurpose'.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

  • In little more than a century and a half, we have seen a change from general adherence to the doctrine of special creation to a range of beliefs, at the most different from evolutionary biology, creation of each separate “kind” which when defined at all, tends to be defined such that the term “clade” comes close to fitting the concept, and at the least different, a belief in physical common descent but separate imbuement of spirit.

    Argument by Incomprehensibility - The Panda's Thumb 2006

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