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defailment

defailment noun: failure.

Noun

defailment (plural defailments)

  1. (obsolete) Failure.
    • 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, Kupperman, published 1988, page 120

Forms of defailment

pluraldefailments

Origin of defailment

From French défaillement.

Questions about defailment

What does defailment mean?
Defailment means failure.
What part of speech is defailment?
Defailment is a noun.
What is the plural of defailment?
The plural of defailment is defailments.

Words near defailment in the dictionary

  1. defail
  2. defailance
  3. defailances
  4. defailed
  5. defailing
  6. defailment
  7. defailments
  8. defails
  9. defailure
  10. defaitism
  11. Defaka

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