rare. [f. as prec. + -MENT. Cf. OF. contenement.] The action or fact of containing; holding; restraint; † deportment, behavior; CONTENEMENT.
1613. Treas. Anc. & Mod. Times, X. vii. 935. Let vs now see, if there be not as good meanes of vertuous containment, as well in the dayes of peace as of warre.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. ix. § 9. A vast summ enough to shatter the conteinment of a rich mans estate.
1879. G. Meredith, Egoist, II. ii. 40. Revelry in sobriety, containment in exultation.
