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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.

You may do it without

controlment

Shakespeare

Opposition; resistance; hostility.

[Obs.]

Here have we war for war, and blood for blood,

Controlment

for controlment.

Shakespeare

, CONTROLLMENT,

Noun.

The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint.

Opposition; resistance; counteraction; refutation.

For this word, control is now generally used.

controlment ‎(countable and uncountable, plural controlments)

(obsolete) Control.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
  If he in any sort have communicated himselfe unto thee, it is not to debase himselfe, or stoope to thy smalnesse, nor to give thee the controulment of his power.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, First Folio 1623:
  What is Lauinia then become so loose, / Or Bassianus so degenerate, / That for her loue such quarrels may be broacht, / Without controulement, Iustice, or reuenge?