exploiture

English

Etymology

exploit +‎ -ure

Noun

exploiture (plural exploitures)

1. (obsolete) The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement.
   • 1549, Erasmus, “(please specify the book of the Bible, or other title)”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall; et al.], transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche:

     Whose seruice thou canst not lacke for thexploiture of such affaires.

2. (obsolete) exploitation
   • 1883, Harper's Magazine:

     The plot of the tragedy at hand was the very old one of the decoy and the ambuscade—a plot, it seems, which was never so old but that it rewarded some further exploiture by Marion.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exploiture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)