defailure
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
defailure (uncountable)
- (obsolete) failure
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
- Why may not the successor of Peter, no less than the heir of Adam, suffer a defailure of jurisdiction?
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “defailure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)