defailance
English
Etymology
French défaillance.
Noun
defailance (countable and uncountable, plural defailances)
- (obsolete) failure; miscarriage
- 1672, Thomas Comber, A Companion to the Temple
- possibility of defailance in degree or continuance
- 1672, Thomas Comber, A Companion to the Temple
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for defailance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)