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English
Noun
imployment (countable and uncountable, plural imployments)
- Obsolete spelling of employment.
a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Cornwall”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: J G W L and W G, published 1662, →OCLC, page 202: King Henry full fraught all thoſe vvith vvealth and revvards, vvhom he retained in his imployment.
1893 February (date written), Henry B Wheatley, “Particulars of the Life of Samuel Pepys”, in Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, edited by Henry B. Wheatley, The Diary of Samuel Pepys , volume I, London: George Bell & Sons ; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page xxvii:t is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe , and possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment.