The act or process of populating or filling a place with people.
From empeople + -ment (act or result of action). Follows the standard English pattern for creating abstract nouns from verbs.
This noun form is almost ghostly—barely used even in historical texts. It reveals how English created whole word families around the em- prefix, many of which never caught on and disappeared by the 1700s.
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