developement

Noun

1. Obsolete spelling of development.
   • Gentlemen, the complete developement of this business, however, now approached. - 1814, William Brodie Gurney, The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane,:
   • When I mingled with other families, I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the developement of filial love. - 1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter II, in...
   • "Pray, Mr. Truck," inquired S. R. P., "is it commonly thought in the English literary circles, that Byron was a developement of Shakspeare, or Shakspeare a shadowing forth of Byron?" - 1838, [James Fenimore Cooper],...