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单词 defailance
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defailancedefaillancen.

Forms: Also 1600s–1700s -fail(l)iance.
Etymology: < French défaillance, < défaill-ir : see -ance suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: deˈfailance.
Failing, failure.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun]
wanspeedc893
defaulta1387
unspeeda1400
faultingc1450
fail1477
defallation1490
ill, evil ch(i)eving?1518
misproving1542
defection1576
unsuccessa1586
defailance1603
abortiveness1611
defailment1612
ill success1615
failancea1627
unprosperitya1628
mis-success1641
successlessness1642
insuccess1646
intercision1647
failure1648
insuccessfulness1648
unprosperousness1648
defaillancy1649
unsuccessfulness1656
missucceedinga1661
non-success1665
defailurea1677
miscarrying1736
throwdown1887
short circuit1937
Palookaville?1954
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. vi. 217 So great a..deffailance of senses [as in fits].
1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 55 He had a fayre Title, by the defaillance of issue.
a1668 W. Waller Divine Medit. (1839) 42 In the defailliance of all these transitory comforts.
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 76 By transgression of his laws and defailance in duty.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies 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.
1892 E. Dowson Let. ?23 Nov. (1967) 254 Forgive my défaillance. I hope you didn't wait long; most contrite.
1902 H. Belloc Path to Rome 194 This defaillance and breakdown which comes from time to time over the mind.
1938 E. Hemingway Fifth Column (1939) iii. i. 86 If you have a little defaillance I understand.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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