Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-RAIGN'MENT, or DE-RAIN'MENT
DE-RAIGN', or DE-RAIN'DE-RANGE'
DE-RAIGN'MENT, or DE-RAIN'MENT, n.
The act of deraining; proof; justification. A like word was formerly used in the sense of disordering, derangement, a discharge from a profession, or departure from a religious order. [Fr. deranger; de and ranger.]
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