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failances

failances is the plural of failance.

Meaning of failance

Noun

failance (countable and uncountable, plural failances)

  1. (obsolete) fault; failure; omission
    • […] always made it necessary for him not to stir from his chair, or so much as read a letter, for two hours after every meal, failance wherein being certainly revenged by a sit of the gout […]1810, John Fell, “Henry Hammond”, in Ecclesiastical Biography

Questions about failances

What is failances the plural of?
Failances is the plural of failance.

Words near failances in the dictionary

  1. fail-safing
  2. fail-secure
  3. fail-soft
  4. failable
  5. failance
  6. failances
  7. failback
  8. failbacks
  9. failboy
  10. failboys
  11. failchild

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