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defailance

defailance noun: failure; miscarriage.

Noun

defailance (countable and uncountable, plural defailances)

  1. (obsolete) Failure; miscarriage.
    • possibility of defailance in degree or continuance1672, Thomas Comber, A Companion to the Temple
    Synonyms:
    defailure

Synonyms of defailance

Forms of defailance

pluraldefailances

Origin of defailance

French défaillance.

Questions about defailance

What does defailance mean?
Defailance means failure; miscarriage.
What part of speech is defailance?
Defailance is a noun.
What is the plural of defailance?
The plural of defailance is defailances.

Words near defailance in the dictionary

  1. defaecation
  2. defaecations
  3. defaecator
  4. defaecators
  5. defail
  6. defailance
  7. defailances
  8. defailed
  9. defailing
  10. defailment
  11. defailments

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