dispurveyance
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From dis- + purveyance.
Noun[edit]
dispurveyance (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare) Lack of provisions.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- No fort so fensible, no wals so strong, / But that continuall battery will riue, / Or daily siege through dispuruayance long, / And lacke of reskewes will to parley driue […]