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< emollient
emote >
e·mol·u·ment
(
-m
l
y
-m
nt)
KEY
NOUN:
Payment for an office or employment; compensation.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Latin
molumentum
,
gain, originally a miller's fee for grinding grain
, from
molere
,
to grind out
:
-, ex-
,
ex-
+
molere
,
to grind
; see
mel
-
in Indo-European roots
Thesaurus: synonyms for emolument
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