parture

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː(ɹ)tjʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Noun

parture (countable and uncountable, plural partures)

1. (obsolete) departure
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46:

     the late ruine of proud Marinell, and suddein parture of faire Florimell

   • 1851, George Turberville, Notes upon Russia, volume 1, Certaine Letters in Verse:

     If I should now forget, or not remember thee,
     Thou, Spencer, mightest a foule rebuke and shame impute to mee;
     For I to open shew did loue thee passing well,
     And thou wert he at parture whom I loathed to bid farewell;

References

• “parture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Rapture, rapture

Latin

Participle

partūre

1. vocative masculine singular of partūrus