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defailments

defailments is the plural of defailment.

Meaning of defailment

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

Questions about defailments

What is defailments the plural of?
Defailments is the plural of defailment.

Words near defailments in the dictionary

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

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