returnment

English

Etymology

From return +‎ -ment.

Noun

returnment (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) A return; a moving back.
   • 1606, [Thomas Heywood], The Second Part of, If You Know Not Me, You Know No Bodie. […], London: […] [Thomas Purfoot] for Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, signature K, verso:

     Sometimes vve yeelded, but like a Ramme / That makes returnement to redouble ſtrength, / Then forc't them yeeld […]