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▪ I. † abodement1 Obs.
[f. abode v. + -ment, an early instance of a native vb. with this suffix.]
A foreboding, presage, or omen.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 13 Tush man, aboadments must not now affright vs. 1651Reliquiæ Wottonianæ 119 The Lord Bishop..took the freedom to ask whether he had never any secret abodement in his minde. 1665J. Spencer Prodigies 179 But where matters ungrateful fall before us, we usually serve our little hatreds, by deriving upon them the Opinion of being ill abodements.
▪ II. † abodement2 Obs.
[An irreg. formation on abode n.1, perh. due to form-assoc. with prec.]
Abode, abiding.
1592W. Wyrley Armorie i. 131 Making abodement with the loued Prince. 1616Drummond of Hawthornden Poems 174 Nor time nor Place Of thy abodement shadows any Trace, But there to me Thou shin'st. |