amassment

== English == === Etymology === Probably from French amassement (“the act of amassing; the result of this action, objects that have been amassed or piled up”); equivalent to amass +‎ -ment. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /əˈmæsmənt/ === Noun === amassment (countable and uncountable, plural amassments) The act of amassing. 1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, London: Thomas Heath, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 13,[1] [...] no can know, whether He [God] created either more Atoms then were requisite to the amassment of this World, or more Worlds then this one: (countable) That which is amassed; a large quantity (of something). ==== Synonyms ==== accumulation collection ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === Edward Phillips, compiler (1658), “Amassement”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], →OCLC, column 1: “Amaſſement, (French) a crouding, or heaping of ſeveral things together.” Elisha Coles, An English Dictionary, London: Peter Parker, 1677: “Amassement, [...] heaping up.”[10] Samuel Johnson (15 April 1755), “Ama′sment”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–K), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, for J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1: “A heap; an accumulation; a collection.”