deperdition

See also: déperdition

English

Noun

deperdition (countable and uncountable, plural deperditions)

1. (archaic) Loss; destruction.
   • 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

     For the activity of the agent, being not able to overmaster the resistance of the patient, there will ensue no deperdition.

Translations

loss, destruction

• French: déperdition (fr) f
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “deperdition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• diterpenoid