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impartment (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 impartments)

1. The act of imparting something, or the thing imparted; disclosure.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 4,^[1]

     It [the ghost of Hamlet’s father] beckons you to go away with it,

     As if it some impartment did desire

     To you alone.

   • 1673, Nathaniel Wanley, The Wonders of the Little World, London: T. Basset et al., Book 4, Chapter 22 “Of the Ignorance of the Ancients, and others,” p. 401,^[2]

     It is not therefore the design of this Chapter to uncover the nakedness of our Fathers, so as to expose it to the petulancy of any, but rather to congratulate those further accessions of light and improvements in knowledge, which these latter Ages have attained unto, and to celebrate the wisdom and goodness of the great Creator, who hath not been so liberal in his impartments to our Progenitours, but that he hath reserved something wherewith to gratifie the modest inquiries, and industrious researches of after-times.

   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 21, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, page 322:

     […] no slaveholding reader has any right to expect the impartment of such information.