dispurveyance

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ purveyance.

Noun

dispurveyance (uncountable)

1. (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 […]