parture

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

parture (countable and uncountable, plural partures)

(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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “parture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Rapture, rapture

Latin

Participle

partūre

vocative masculine singular of partūrus