defunction
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defunction (countable and uncountable, plural defunctions)
- (obsolete) Death.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Until four hundred one-and-twenty years / After defunction of King Pharamond […]
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- See also Thesaurus:death
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death
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- “defunction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.