disforestation

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ forestation.

Noun

disforestation (usually uncountable, plural disforestations)

  1. Archaic form of deforestation.
    • 1618, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England:
      Disforestations.—And twelue Knights, or Legall men are chosen in euery shiere, vppon their Oath, to disparte the olde Forrests from the new

References

disforestation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.