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Cloyment vs Ployment - What's the difference?

cloyment | ployment |

As nouns the difference between cloyment and ployment

is that cloyment is (obsolete) satiety while ployment is (military) the act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; the opposite of deployment.

cloyment

English

Noun

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  • (obsolete) satiety
  • * Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (act 2 scene 4)
    • Alas, their love may be called appetite, no motion of the liver, but the palate, that suffer surfeit, cloyment , and revolt
    (Webster 1913)

    ployment

    English

    Noun

  • (military) The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; the opposite of deployment.
    • (Webster 1913)