Defailment

Origin

From French défaillement.

Full definition of defailment

Noun

1. (obsolete) Failure. 17th c.
• 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 120: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 ....

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