[f. EVOLVE v. + -MENT.] The action of evolving, the condition of being evolved; evolution.
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 168. India owes to its exertions … the evolvement of the products of a soil unrivalled for its richness.
1852. Blackw. Mag., LXXI. 596. Eyes, heart, mind, all fixed on the wondrous … evolvement of the story.
1866. Eng. Leader, 22 Dec., 352. Jesus … showed that he aspired at an evolvement, and not … a revolution, though historically and philosophically it may be proved that the only real revolutions are evolvements.
1883. T. Wright, in 19th Cent., No. 72. 280. I am in a position to speak … not … from any process of evolvement from an inner consciousness but from personal knowledge.
b. concr. in pl. The displayed folds (of a banner).
1849. Jane Porter, Scot. Chiefs (1854), 156. As its vast evolvements floated in the air, the cry of triumph … burst from every heart.
