affrayment

English

Alternative forms

(obsolete) affraiment

Etymology

affray +‎ -ment

Noun

affrayment (usually uncountable, plural affrayments)

1. (obsolete) affray

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

   • 2007, Brendan Galvin, Ocean Effects

     The man's seductive rhetoric so fanned affrayments as to cause in meadows and byways near perpetual brawling.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)