interchangement

noun

obsolete

: reciprocal exchange

contract … strengthened by interchangement of your rings

—Shakespeare

Word History

Etymology

alteration (influenced by Latin inter-) of earlier enterchangement, from French entrechangement, from Middle French, from Old French, from entrechangier to interchange + -ment

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