Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of withholding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of withholding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
withholding .
Etymologies
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From withhold + -ment.
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Examples
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It was specious, and ingeniously overstated the scope and powers demanded for the Bureau, in order to make its withholdment appear a liberal and democratic measure.
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915
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To herself, when most satisfied of the existence of a secret, she steadily excused her cousin's withholdment of confidence, on the ground of her own lack of feelings: how could she unbosom herself to such as she!
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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