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dissettlement

noun

Etymology

From dis- + settlement.

  1. derived from saht
  2. inherited from sahtlian
  3. inherited from sahtlen
  4. derived from setl
  5. inherited from setlan — “to settle, seat, put to rest”
  6. inherited from setlen
  7. formed as settlement — “settle + -ment”
  8. prefixed as dissettlement — “dis + settlement”

Definitions

  1. The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled.

    • Never was so much sense contained in so few words. No conveyancer could ever in more compendious or binding terms have drawn a dissettlement of the whole birth-right of England.
    • 'Tis an instrument of mischief and dissettlement to be courted by those who would have change

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dissettlement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA