dispurveyance
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 […]