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Abatement   /əbˈeɪtmənt/   Listen
Abatement

noun
1.
An interruption in the intensity or amount of something.  Synonyms: hiatus, reprieve, respite, suspension.
2.
The act of abating.



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"Abatement" Quotes from Famous Books



... prohibit a female attendant. Priapism continued, but the man went into a soporose condition, with occasional intervals of satyriasis. In this condition he survived nine days; there was not the slightest abatement of the priapism until a few moments before his death. Tripe relates the history of a seaman of twenty-five, in perfect health, who, arriving from Calcutta on April 12, 1884, lodged with a female until the 26th. At this time he experienced an unusually fierce desire, with ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... puts him to say of his traffic, it is better than it is, that he may heighten the price of it; and covetousness in the buyer, that prompts him to say worse of a thing than he thinks in his conscience it is, and that for an abatement of a reasonable price. This is that which the apostle forbids under the name of defraud, 1 Corinthians 6:8, and that which Solomon condemns ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... farm. Is that too far for you? He wants an abatement of his rent for some improvements, and I want to judge ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

... that event Lord Dundonald sought to be elected one of the Scotch representative peers in the House of Lords. Now that his load of unmerited disgrace was shaken off, he desired to resume his old functions as a legislator—and this with no abatement of his zeal for the welfare of the people; but with none of the violence which his own heavy sufferings at the time of their first and heaviest pressure had partly caused him to show during his former parliamentary career. Being now a peer, ...
— The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II • Thomas Lord Cochrane

... miles Wildfire continued his course, clearing every obstacle without abatement to his speed, and delighting his rider with his power and jumping qualities. Occasionally, only when the course he was taking would have led him to obstacles impossible for the best jumper to surmount, Vincent attempted to put ...
— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty


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