[f. as prec. + -MENT.] The action of benumbing; the fact or condition of being benumbed; torpor.
1816. Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1843), II. 357. At first a partial benumbment takes place.
1851. Bunsen, in Macready’s Remin., II. 388. After one century of bloody internal wars and another of benumbment.
