Word Meanings - RELEASEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton.

RELEASOR
One by whom a release is given.
RELEASE
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
CONFINEMENT
1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
RELEASEMENT
The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton.
RELEASABLE
That may be released.
OBLIGATION
A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things. Days of obligation. See under Day. (more info) 1. The act of obligating. 2. That
MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell.
RELEASEE
One to whom a release is given.
RELEASER
One who releases, or sets free.
MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
DISOBLIGATION
1. The act of disobliging. 2. A disobliging act; an offense. Clarendon. 3. Release from obligation. Jer. Taylor.