"distinguishment" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From distinguish + -ment.",
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          "ref": "1865, John Grote, Exploratio philosophica: rough notes on modern intellectual science, Part 1, University of Cambridge, page 50:",
          "text": "\"We notice what we notice and make it a thing distinguishing it from what else is within our view, partly because, doubtless, it is of such or such a size and shape: but we require more impulse to the notice and distinguishment than this furnishes.\"",
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          "ref": "1833, Samuel Lewis Southard, Joseph Hendrickson, Thomas L. Shotwell, Edward Hopper, Argument of Samuel L. Southard: in the case of Stacy Decow and Joseph Hendrickson versus Thomas L. Shotwell, page 157:",
          "text": "\"And first, in your doctrines of God, whom you say is to be known and believed on, as in the distinguishment of three persons...",
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        "A distinction; observation of difference."
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          "word": "distinction"
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  "word": "distinguishment"
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