The act or process of hanging someone; execution by hanging (archaic legal or religious term).
From 'hang' with the suffix '-ment' (denoting an action or state), creating a noun form. Appears in archaic English, particularly in legal documents and religious texts concerning capital punishment.
Legal language created words like 'hangment' to describe execution clinically and officially—the suffix '-ment' transforms an action into an abstract concept, which allowed officials and judges to discuss killing in bureaucratic terms that distanced them emotionally from the act itself.
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