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emolument|ɪˈmɒljʊmənt|
[ad. L. ēmŏlŭ-, ēmŏlĭmentum profit, advantage; in most Lat. Dicts. said to be f. ēmōlī-rī to bring out by effort.
On this view, however, the quantity ought to be ēmōlīmentum; the quantity evidenced in L. poetry points to derivation from ēmŏlĕre to grind out. Possibly two distinct L. words of the same spelling may have been confused.]
1. Profit or gain arising from station, office, or employment; dues; reward, remuneration, salary.
1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 127 Certeyn offeringes..and emoluments unto the said benefice due. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 31 His former rents and emoluments. 1743J. Morris Serm. viii. 216 Believers..deny themselves all the..emoluments..they might have injoyed here. 1803F. Jeffrey in Four C. Eng. Lett. 423 The concern has now become to be of some emolument. 1881P. Brooks Candle of Lord 69 Men who want to be scholars for the emoluments..scholarship will bring.
†2. Advantage, benefit, comfort. Obs.
1633Massinger New Way, etc. iv. ii, Thou never hadst in thy house..A piece of..cheese..For their [men's] emolument. 1704Swift T. Tub (1768) I. 119 That wind still continues of great emolument in certain mysteries. 1756Chesterfield Lett. IV. cccxvi. 80, I brought it [an emetic] all up again to my great satisfaction and emolument. |