affrayment

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English

Alternative forms

(obsolete) affraiment

Etymology

From affray +‎ -ment.

Noun

affrayment (usually uncountable, plural affrayments)

  1. (obsolete) affray
    • 2007, Brendan Galvin, Ocean Effects:
      The man's seductive rhetoric so fanned affrayments as to cause in meadows and byways near perpetual brawling.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “affrayment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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