perishment

Compare Old French perissement.

perishment (usually uncountable, plural perishments)

1. The act of perishing.
   • 1549, Erasmus, “(please specify the book of the Bible, or other title)”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall; et al.], transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche:

     To bestowe life is no perishemente but auantage.

• “perishment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• reshipment