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† ˈfailance Obs.
[f. as prec. + -ance. Cf. OF. faillance.]
The quality or fact of failing; failure, neglect, falling off; an instance of the same. in failance of: for lack of.
1612Hayward Ann. Eliz. (Camden) 9 The fayleance wherof would eyther change or abate theyr loves. 1622Peacham Compl. Gent. xx. (1634) 240 Such pawse..as may afforde you meanes to discerne any failance. 1667Decay Chr. Piety Pref. 195 Disquisitions about our failances and aberrations. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland xxvii. 125 They use the root of a kind of moss..or in the failance of that, the stalke of Angelica. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xii. 60 What else..should make the Success equiponderate with the Failance? |