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Controlment   Listen
noun
Controlment  n.  
1.
The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence. "You may do it without controlment."
2.
Opposition; resistance; hostility. (Obs.) "Here have we war for war, and blood for blood, Controlment for controlment."





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"Controlment" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the tremendous champions of the war: so it is said that when the Contrebanque arrived, and ranged itself before the officers of Lenoir—rouleau to rouleau, bank-note to bank-note, war for war, controlment for controlment—all the minor punters and gamblers ceased their peddling play, and looked on in silence, round the verdant plain where the great ...
— The Christmas Books • William Makepeace Thackeray


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