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单词 defeatment
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defeatmentn.

Forms: 1500s–1700s defeatment, 1700s defaitment (nonstandard).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: defeat v., -ment suffix.
Etymology: < defeat v. + -ment suffix. Compare Anglo-Norman defaitement undoing, destruction (a1412). Compare earlier defeat n., defeating n., defeature n.
Obsolete.
1. A defeat in battle or war.
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society > armed hostility > defeat > [noun]
confusionc1290
scomfit13..
cumber1303
discomfitc1330
scomfitingc1333
discomfiturea1400
scomfiturea1400
discomfitingc1405
overthrowc1440
male journey1455
overset1456
foilc1478
discomforture1485
supprise1488
reversea1529
distrage?1548
loss1548
defeat1553
underdeal1553
discomfort1589
defeatment1598
defeature1598
rufflec1600
defeatance1608
routa1616
Caudine Forks1619
disrout1623
conviction1631
bang1644
derout1644
conquest1677
drubbing1769
check1793
thrashing1797
sauve-qui-peut1815
debacle1847
smash1888
pasting1942
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 98 The cause of many defeatments.
1699 S. Willard Man of War 18 Most of our Surprizes and Defeatments by the Enemies, have deserved to be imputed to this.
1733 J. Millner Compend. Jrnl. 167 The Seat of the War was wholly in Flanders, removed thither by the French Defeatment.
1779 McLaughlin & Creery Let. 26 Feb. in B. Franklin Papers (1990) XXVIII. 614 We went to New York, and there remain'd untill the defaitment—from thence we retrait'd to harlon.
2. The prevention of the progress, success, or realization of something; frustration of a plan or purpose; an instance of this. Cf. defeat n. 3.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > of plans, etc.
defeat1581
defeature1583
defeatment1611
1611 R. Bolton Disc. State True Happinesse 146 A timely discouerie and wise defeatment of Satans stratagems and policies.
1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva i. vi. 48 Had these Letters bin delivered to the King (as they might have bin but for this defeatment).
1674 J. Owen in S. Annesley Suppl. to Morning-exercise at Cripple-gate xxviii. 615 The defeatment of these advantages.
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel 261 In defeatment of his Power and Laws in the Church.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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