† transportmentn.
Obsolete.
1. Transportation: = transport n. 1. rare.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun]
transportmenta1640
onerary1728
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Queene of Corinth iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbbb4v/1 Are not you he, when your fellow Passengers, Your last transportment being assayl'd by a Galley Hid your selfe i' the Cabbin?
2. Vehement emotion, passion; rapture, ecstasy: = transport n. 3.
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the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun]
woodnessc1000
furyc1374
ferteec1380
ragea1393
violencea1393
excess1423
zeala1425
vehemence1445
extremity1509
franticnessa1529
vehemency1534
wildnessc1540
impotency1542
violent1576
distraughture1594
distraught1610
distractiona1616
distractedness?1617
entrancement1637
distractfulnessa1640
impotencea1640
transportment1639
transportednessa1656
violent1667
whirl1707
rave1765
Sturm und Drang1857
storm and stress1879
1639 G. Digby in G. Digby & K. Digby Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 116 When they inveigh against Hereticks; their passions and transportments being at such times greatest.
1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox xii. 325 To appease the frantick transportments of his Minde.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Coronation Solyman 81 in Trav. Persia Hairbrain'd, and violent actions, and full of a Transportment that truly savour'd of Extravagance.
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