[f. ENDAMAGE v. + -MENT.] The action of endamaging; the state of being endamaged; injury, harm, loss.
1593. Nashe, Four Lett. Confut., 60. That vnaduised indammagement I haue done you.
1657. W. Coles, Adam in Eden, 167. The inhabitants of Middleborough … eat thereof [flax-seed] to the great endammagement of their healths.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb. (1704), III. XVI. 583. To the least indamagement of them.
1675. Cocker, Morals, 60. Who in their Youth refused to be taught, To numerous Endammagements are brought.
1789. Bentham, Princ. Legisl., xviii. 35. The offence may be termed wrongful endamagement.
1836. Fraser’s Mag., XIII. 301. The endamagement of their credit.
