English
amassment
Amassment may come from French amassement ‘the act of amassing’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentamassement‘the act of amassing’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1661amassment
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentamassement‘the act of amassing’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1661amassment
Earliest quotation: 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing: “[Phancy, i.e. imagination, is] but an amassment of imaginary…”
Every English word from French amassement
Today it means
noun The act of amassing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French amassement / amassment