abortment

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English

Etymology

From abort +‎ -ment.

Noun

abortment (plural abortments)

  1. (obsolete) Abortion. [1]

References

  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abortment”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.