"controlment" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: controlments [plural]
Etymology: From control + -ment. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|control|ment}} control + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} controlment (countable and uncountable, plural controlments)
  1. (obsolete) Control. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-controlment-en-noun-kRLSP9TW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ment

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          "text": ", II.12,\nIf he in any sort have communicated himselfe vnto thee, it is not to debase himselfe, or stoope to thy smalnesse, nor to give thee the controulment of his power."
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          "text": "1656, Walter Charleton (translator), Epicurus’s Morals, London: Henry Herringman, Chapter 12, 2., p. 87,\n[…] he is as little moved by wrongs done him by men, as by the incommodities or losses sustained by misfortune, and generally by any other event occasioned by things beyond his power of ordering & controlment."
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          "text": "1775, Edward Jerningham, The Fall of Mexico, London: J. Robson, p. 13, lines 220-224,\nShould CORTEZ o’er this valiant band prevail,\nShould thro’ controlment, and thro’ stubborn force,\nPour like a torrent his destructive course,\nWhen on this summit first he shall appear,\nI will advance, with well-dissembled fear […]"
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