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defailment
defailment
English
Noun
defailment (plural defailments)
- (obsolete) Failure. [17th c.]
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 120:
- True it is Argall lost his voyage, but we revictualled him, and sent him for England, with a true relation of the causes of our defailments [...].
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 120: