defailment
English edit
Etymology edit
From French défaillement.
Noun edit
defailment (plural defailments)
- (obsolete) Failure. [17th c.]
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 120:
- True it is Argall lost his voyage, but we revictualled him, and sent him for England, with a true relation of the causes of our defailments [...].