tendment

tendment

English

Etymology

From tend +‎ -ment.

Noun

tendment (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) attendance; care
    • 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
      Meanwhile if chance some desp'rate patient die / […] / Whether ill-tendment, or recureless pain, / Procure his death […]
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