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deˈfailance, -faillance
Also 7–8 -fail(l)iance.
[a. F. défaillance, f. défaill-ir: see -ance.]
Failing, failure.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. vi. (1632) 207 So great a..deffailance of senses [as in fits]. 1613–18Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 55 He had a fayre Title, by the defaillance of issue. a1668Sir W. Waller Div. Medit. (1839) 42 In the defailliance of all these transitory comforts. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 II. 57 By transgression of his laws and defailance in duty. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xxxviii. 206 Those Eastern Desperadoes are very faithful where..Covenants are duly observed when made with them, but in Defailiance, they are revengeful and cruel. 1892E. Dowson Let. ?23 Nov. (1967) 254 Forgive my défaillance. I hope you didn't wait long; most contrite. 1902Belloc Path to Rome 194 This defaillance and breakdown which comes from time to time over the mind. 1938Hemingway Fifth Column (1939) iii. i. 86 If you have a little defaillance I understand. |