Results for abatement

Definitions of abatement:

part of speech: noun

A reduction; a lessening; the sum abated.

part of speech: noun

The act of abating: the sum or quantity abated: ( her.) a mark of dishonor on a coat- of- arms.

Usage examples for abatement:

• Now, when the infinite purpose is at work on the earth, turning dirt into flowers, or vegetables, or trees, we should feel a joy in sharing its labor, but when it is determined to burn and scorch everything on the face of the ground with a heat that knows no abatement we should want to sell out our interest in the concern at once. "Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays", Lemuel K. Washburn

• It lasted with no abatement while Madame, standing there in her gaunt Flemish graciousness, murmured names. "The Romantic", May Sinclair

• The committee of public safety, being at once the object of the attacks of Europe, and of the hatred of so many conquered parties, thought that any abatement of violence would occasion its destruction; it wished at the same time to subdue its foes, and to get rid of them. "History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814", F. A. M. Miguet