Middle English Dictionary Entry
contentement n.
Entry Info
| Forms | contentement n. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Satisfactory payment (of an obligation or debt), satisfaction (of a claim).
Associated quotations
- (1437) RParl.4.508a : Merchauntz of Leyden..come yider to have boght a gret part of ye said Wolles and Wolfell, offring suffisant contentement, plein agrement, and redy paiement yerfore.
- (1449) Let.Hen.VI in Archaeol.40454 : Thanne it shulde be lawfull to the saide Englissh marchantes to arrest the said Hollanders..theire goodis..til the ful contentement of the saide sommes.
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)22 : For the conservation of his most high estate and contentement of his householde royal and creditors thereof.