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dispurveyance

dispurveyance noun: lack of provisions.

Noun

dispurveyance (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Lack of provisions.
    • No fort so fensible, no wals so strong, / But that continuall battery will riue, / Or daily siege through dispuruayance long, / And lacke of reskewes will to parley driue […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin of dispurveyance

From dis- + purveyance.

Questions about dispurveyance

What does dispurveyance mean?
Dispurveyance means lack of provisions.
What part of speech is dispurveyance?
Dispurveyance is a noun.

Words near dispurveyance in the dictionary

  1. dispursed
  2. dispursement
  3. dispurses
  4. dispursing
  5. dispurvey
  6. dispurveyance
  7. dispurveyed
  8. dispurveying
  9. dispurveys
  10. disputability
  11. disputable

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