defailment

English

Etymology

From French défaillement.

Noun

defailment (plural defailments)

  1. (obsolete) Failure. [17th c.]
    • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 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 [...].

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