withdrawmentn.
/wɪðˈdrɔːmənt/ Now rare.
= withdrawal n. in various senses; formerly spec. the withdrawal of divine illumination.
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the mind > possession > taking > [noun] > taking back or again
retaking1436
gain-taking1538
reassumption1611
replevin1619
withdrawment1640
retrotraction1673
resumption1694
retrosusception1827
take-back1873
snatch-back1905
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away
withdrawingc1315
remuingc1330
withdraught1340
taking awaya1382
discharginga1398
removinga1398
remotiona1425
subtraction?a1425
amovingc1443
taking offc1450
abstraction1467
way-taking1479
substracting1549
conveyance1567
sublation1567
remove1589
removal1595
exemption1598
substraction1601
supporting1608
amovement1618
subductiona1620
conveying1621
amolitiona1641
withdrawment1640
subducting1645
suffuration1651
summotion1653
amoval1657
withdraw1720
withdrawal1838
removement1846
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > retiring, withdrawing, or retreating
recoilc1330
retreata1393
subtraction?a1425
back-drawing1535
retirement1536
retiring1548
retraict1550
recess1561
retire1570
retiral1611
subducing1633
retiration1637
withdrawment1640
retirance1662
retreating1664
retraction1684
retreatment1721
withdrawal1824
back-pedalling1950
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > withdrawal of divine illumination
withdrawment1640
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > desertion of one's party or principles
recreandisea1425
declining1526
declination1533
back-turning1535
defect1540
revoltc1576
falling off1577
apostasy1578
tergiversation1583
declension1597
recreancy1602
starting1602
recreantness1611
recession1614
turncoating1624
recreancea1632
diffidation1640
withdrawment1640
tergiversating1654
turning1665
ratting1789
renegadism1823
turncoatery1841
defection1884
turncoatism1889
1640 O. Sedgwick Christs Counsell 79 All the wrath of God, and the withdrawments of his love.
1666 G. Alsop Char. Province Maryland 46 I am certainly confident, that England would as soon feel her feebleness by withdrawment of so great an upholder.
1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra iii. xxiii. 195 An apparent withdrawment from Obedience.
a1709 J. Lister Autobiogr. (1842) 52 He would sometimes say to me in the times of God's withdrawments, ‘O! son, I am not able to bear under God's absence’.
1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. iii. 41 The Withdrawment or Absence of the Sun.
1817 Chalmers in Edinb. Rev. Mar. 4 A great withdrawment of wealth from its former channels of distribution.
1885 Manch. Examiner 16 Sept. 5/2 The immediate withdrawment from an..expensive colonial policy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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