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deperdits

deperdits noun: things lost or destroyed.

Noun

deperdits pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only) Things lost or destroyed.
    • […] we might have nations of human beings without nails upon their fingers, with more or fewer fingers and toes than ten... No reason can be given why, if these deperdits ever existed, they have now disappeared.1802, William Paley, Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, chapter 5, objection #4

Origin of deperdits

Late Latin deperditum, from Latin deperditus, past participle of deperdere.

Questions about deperdits

What does deperdits mean?
Deperdits means things lost or destroyed.
What part of speech is deperdits?
Deperdits is a noun.

Words near deperdits in the dictionary

  1. deperches
  2. deperching
  3. deperditely
  4. deperdition
  5. deperditions
  6. deperdits
  7. deperetellid
  8. deperetellids
  9. deperimeterization
  10. deperimeterized
  11. deperish

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