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abatement [ə′bāt·mənt] (engineering) The waste produced in cutting a timber, stone, or metal piece to a desired size and shape. A decrease in the amount of a substance or other quantity, such as atmospheric pollution. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For perhaps they have heard some talk, Such an one is a great rich man, and another except to it, Yea, but he hath a great charge of children; as if it were an abatement to his riches. But much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he assigns it. Her beauty was still the object of desire, though greater beauty, or a fresher object, might have been more so; but the little abatement which fruition had occasioned to this was highly overbalanced by the considerations of the affection which she visibly bore him, and of the situation into which he had brought her. |
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