evolvement

From evolve +‎ -ment.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈvɒlv.mənt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪˈvɑlv.mənt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪˈvɔlv.mənt/
• Rhymes: -ɒlvmənt
• Hyphenation: e‧volve‧ment

evolvement (countable and uncountable, plural evolvements)

1. Evolution. [from 19th c.]
   • 1979, Charles Bukowski, letter, 6 February, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 153:

     I'm into the film script with Barbet, 30 or so pages; but I'm surprised—he wants a plot and an evolvement of character. shit, my characters seldom evolve, they are too fucked-up.

   • 1983 February 12, F. W. Leupold, “Lesbirotic Electrographics”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 29, page 12:

     Here is an artwork revealing the method of its evolvement, allowing the viewer presence at the moment when the image is caught on the video screen and also when it is transferred onto the surface.

   • 2013, Victoria Cochrane, Raising the Energies of Mother Earth Towards and After Ascension 2012:

     The blessings come in the knowing that the lessons were not in vain, that the hard times and the good times were all leading to the evolvement of the spirit into a master of the highest order […]