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Retardment  n.  The act of retarding; retardation.





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"Retardment" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite shallow. Upon closer inspection, I discovered that this was a shoal of young eels, so closely joined together as to appear, on a superficial view, on continued body, moving briskly up against the stream. To avoid the retardment they experienced from the force of the current, they kept close along the water's edge the whole of the way, following all the bendings and sinuosities of the river. Where they were embayed, and in still water, the shoal dilated in breadth, so as ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton
 
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