Antedating of "Disarmament"

[Shapiro, Fred]

disarmament (OED 1795)

1710 David Jones _A Compleat History of Europe_ 31 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  His Excellency the Marquess de _Prie_, Imperial Plenipotentiary, promises on his side, in Consideration of the Disarmament and Promises hereafter mentioned, made on the Part of Holiness, [etc.]


Fred Shapiro

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