forestallment

noun

fore·​stall·​ment -lmənt 

plural -s

: an act of forestalling or the result of this : anticipation

disheartened at the forestallment of his invention

Word History

Etymology

Middle English forstallment, forestallment, from forstallen, forestallen + -ment

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Rhymes for forestallment

• installment
• instalment