dispurveyance

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ purveyance.

Noun

dispurveyance (uncountable)

(obsolete, rare) Lack of provisions.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  No fort so fensible, no wals so strong, / But that continuall battery will riue, / Or daily siege through dispuruayance long, / And lacke of reskewes will to parley driue […]

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