rare. [f. WITHHOLD v. + -MENT.] = WITHHOLDING vbl. sb.

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1640.  O. Sedgwick, Christ’s Counsell, 183. An avocation or withholdment from errours.

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1851.  W. Anderson, Exposure of Popery (1878), 73. There … is an important withholdment made in the communication.

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