Definition of "propelment" []

• Propulsion, the act of propeling. (noun)

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• "She had been all for the walled little island, -- as she had heard it called, -- the island of the upward bound, where self-propelment was the test of right or wrong, and a marriage well above her the touchstone of a girl's sound morality."
• "Between Cutty's heart and his throat there was very little space at that moment for the propelment of sound."