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labefaction|læbɪˈfækʃən|
[n. of action corresp. to labefy: see -faction.]
A shaking, weakening; overthrow, downfall.
1620Venner Via Recta ii. 41 A suddaine labefaction of the liuer. Ibid. vii. 123 It..resisteth the corruption of humors, and labefaction of the vitall and naturall parts. 1793W. Roberts Looker-on No. 36 (1794) II. 41 We should..join them in promoting the labefaction of all human government. 1834Gladstone in Liddon Life Pusey (1893) I. xiii. 309 Until the whole body of Churchmen is in such a state that all will be..secure against labefaction. 1878R. W. Dixon Hist. Ch. Eng. I. v. 321 To private difficulties and causes of labefaction such as these, must be added several notable measures of confiscation which took place within the same limits of time. |