failuren.

Brit.

/ˈfeɪljə/, U.S.

/ˈfeɪljər/

Forms: Also 1600s failer, fayler, failour, faileur, failler, failȝour, faylor.

Etymology: First in 17th cent. in form failer , < Anglo-Norman failer , for French faillir to fail v.; see quot. 1641 at sense 1a, and compare law terms like cesser , trover . Subsequently the ending was variously confused with the suffixes -or suffix, -our suffix, -ure suffix¹, but the original form did not become obsolete until the end of the century.

The fact of failing.

a. A failing to occur, be performed, or be produced; an omitting to perform something due or required; default.

ΘΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > uneventfulness or failure to happen

failure1643

eventlessness1852

uneventfulness1878

non-event1936

non-happening1968

the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [noun] > non-performance or non-execution

non-performing1444

non-execution1473

non-performance1509

undoing1587

unperformance1608

abortion1610

failure1643

unperforming1645

inexecution1681

disfulfilment1823

insolvency1896

slippage1920

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 154 Failer de Record est quant un Action est port envers un, & le defendant plede [etc.]..Donques il est dit pur failer de son Record.]

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. i. 33 There would necessarily follow..a fayler of Justice in the highest Court of Justice.

1648 T. Fairfax Remonstrance 31 How easie it is to finde, or pretend a failer of full performance.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Nnn6^v He supplying them with 60000 men..should on the failer of the heirs males succeed in this Empire.

1662 Pagitt's Heresiogr. (new ed.) 307 Consecrated here in London by the Reverend Fathers of this Church, through failer of a Bishop surviving in that.

1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 65 Haveinge all Titular Arch B^ps..comd^ed by Procla^on to depart this Kingdom, & on their Faylor to be proceeded against.

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 237 On failure of the descendants of John Stiles himself, the issue of Geoffrey and Lucy Stiles, his parents, is called in.

1832 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War III. 80 To preserve to..Ferdinand VII, all his dominions, and, in his failure, to his legitimate successors.

1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. i. iii. 67 On the failure of issue..an adopted son succeeds.

1885 Act 48 & 49 Victoria c. 72 §5 A failure of justice will take place if the leave [to appeal] is not granted.

†b. A lapse, a slight fault; a failing, infirmity. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > defect or fault or flaw

faultc1320

breckc1369

villainyc1400

offencec1425

defectc1450

defection1526

vitiosity1538

faintness1543

gall1545

eelist1549

mar1551

hole1553

blemish1555

wart1603

flaw1604

mulct1632

wound1646

failurea1656

misfeature1818

bug1875

out1886

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) v. 73 Thorough failler of memory, or false copying.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection v. iv. 267* in Justice Vindicated In regard of the ordinary failures of the presse..the Reader is desired to correct these faults before he begin.

1689 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 262 An unwilling faylor and error in their proceedings.

1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 403 He..owed his Death to..a little inadvertency, and failure of Memory.

1702 Eng. Theophrastus 323 This [envy] is the basest and most ungenerous of all our natural failures.

2. The fact of becoming exhausted or running short, giving way under trial, breaking down in health, declining in strength or activity, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > fact of running out

defaultinga1382

running outa1398

dryness1625

failancea1627

fail1654

failure1695

dry-up1940

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > failure or going wrong > of equipment or machinery

failure1793

breakdown1838

breaking1842

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > breaking down of the mind

discerebrating1654

failure1841

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 152 There then must needs have been an universal failure and want of Springs and Rivers all the Summer-Season.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §259 We concluded the failure had been in the Forelock of the bolt.

1841 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. viii. 126 The mind gone..utter failure of intellect.

1885 Weekly Notes 28 Mar. 67/2 The house had become uninhabitable through the failure of the water-supply.

a. The fact of failing to effect one's purpose; want of success; an instance of this.

ΘΠ

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

1648 F. Nethersole Project for Peace 19 The failer of the timely discovery..happened..through your..default.

1667 G. Digby Elvira v. 82 I..th'other day, could scarce o're come The sense of a slight failour.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. iv. 509 All the Exceptions and Failers will lye, upon the account of ♃.

1800 E. Malone in J. Dryden Wks. I. 505 By his failure in that work he might lose the reputation which he had gained.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §1. 219 The failure of his foreign hopes threw Edward on the resources of England.

1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein II. 327 We see efforts ending in feebleness and failure.

b. concrete. A thing or person that proves unsuccessful.

ΘΠ

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful

failure1836

stumer1891

flop1893

dead-ender1915

no-ball1922

dead loss1927

non-performer1962

bust-out1963

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 21 This attack was a failure also.

1865 Mill in Morning Star 6 July If you elect me and I should turn out a failure.

1883 Church Times 9 Nov. 813/2 Lutheranism has been from the very first a conspicuous religious failure.

1889 Academy 1 June 369/1 The general result of efforts directed to this end is the production of..educated failures.

4. The fact of failing in business; bankruptcy, insolvency.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > financial loss > [noun] > commercial failure

failing1671

failure1702

crash1817

smash1839

smashdom1859

1702 London Gaz. No. 3791/4 Divers Failures have..happened among the Traders in this City.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 5 The Bankers of Geneva were utterly ruin'd by the Failure of Mr. Bernard.

1796 Hull Advertiser 25 June 2/3 Two of these failures have occurred at Milan.

1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 411 A few years later..came the failure of the great Italian bankers.

Draft additions January 2018

failure to thrive n. failure to survive or prosper; spec. (esp. in children and young animals) failure to grow or to gain or maintain weight.

1878 National Live-stock Jrnl. July 300/3 There are the general signs of ill health [in swine with intestinal worms]: a failure to thrive, or even a distinct loss of condition; a scurfy, unthrifty state of the skin [etc.].

1894 Rev. of Rev. July 46/1 It [sc. the Populist party] shows a great riff-raff of men whose failure to thrive can, by their neighbors, be..attributed to their own indolence, viciousness, and folly.

1906 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Oct. 937/2 Infants brought to me because of difficulty in regard to feeding and consequent failure to thrive.

1993 Dog World Nov. 28/3 Malformed puppies, uterine inertia and failure to thrive are common anecdotal problems.

2004 New Yorker 6 Dec. 82/1 ‘Failure to thrive’ is what it's called, and there can be scores of explanations: pituitary disorders, hypothyroidism, genetic defects in metabolism, [etc.]

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	failure
释义	failuren. Brit. /ˈfeɪljə/, U.S. /ˈfeɪljər/ Forms: Also 1600s failer, fayler, failour, faileur, failler, failȝour, faylor. Etymology: First in 17th cent. in form failer , < Anglo-Norman failer , for French faillir to fail v.; see quot. 1641 at sense 1a, and compare law terms like cesser , trover . Subsequently the ending was variously confused with the suffixes -or suffix, -our suffix, -ure suffix¹, but the original form did not become obsolete until the end of the century. The fact of failing. 1. a. A failing to occur, be performed, or be produced; an omitting to perform something due or required; default. ΘΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > uneventfulness or failure to happen failure1643 eventlessness1852 uneventfulness1878 non-event1936 non-happening1968 the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [noun] > non-performance or non-execution non-performing1444 non-execution1473 non-performance1509 undoing1587 unperformance1608 abortion1610 failure1643 unperforming1645 inexecution1681 disfulfilment1823 insolvency1896 slippage1920 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 154 Failer de Record est quant un Action est port envers un, & le defendant plede [etc.]..Donques il est dit pur failer de son Record.] 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. i. 33 There would necessarily follow..a fayler of Justice in the highest Court of Justice. 1648 T. Fairfax Remonstrance 31 How easie it is to finde, or pretend a failer of full performance. 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Nnn6^v He supplying them with 60000 men..should on the failer of the heirs males succeed in this Empire. 1662 Pagitt's Heresiogr. (new ed.) 307 Consecrated here in London by the Reverend Fathers of this Church, through failer of a Bishop surviving in that. 1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 65 Haveinge all Titular Arch B^ps..comd^ed by Procla^on to depart this Kingdom, & on their Faylor to be proceeded against. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 237 On failure of the descendants of John Stiles himself, the issue of Geoffrey and Lucy Stiles, his parents, is called in. 1832 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War III. 80 To preserve to..Ferdinand VII, all his dominions, and, in his failure, to his legitimate successors. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. i. iii. 67 On the failure of issue..an adopted son succeeds. 1885 Act 48 & 49 Victoria c. 72 §5 A failure of justice will take place if the leave [to appeal] is not granted. †b. A lapse, a slight fault; a failing, infirmity. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > defect or fault or flaw faultc1320 breckc1369 villainyc1400 offencec1425 defectc1450 defection1526 vitiosity1538 faintness1543 gall1545 eelist1549 mar1551 hole1553 blemish1555 wart1603 flaw1604 mulct1632 wound1646 failurea1656 misfeature1818 bug1875 out1886 a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) v. 73 Thorough failler of memory, or false copying. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection v. iv. 267* in Justice Vindicated In regard of the ordinary failures of the presse..the Reader is desired to correct these faults before he begin. 1689 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 262 An unwilling faylor and error in their proceedings. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 403 He..owed his Death to..a little inadvertency, and failure of Memory. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 323 This [envy] is the basest and most ungenerous of all our natural failures. 2. The fact of becoming exhausted or running short, giving way under trial, breaking down in health, declining in strength or activity, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > fact of running out defaultinga1382 running outa1398 dryness1625 failancea1627 fail1654 failure1695 dry-up1940 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > failure or going wrong > of equipment or machinery failure1793 breakdown1838 breaking1842 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > breaking down of the mind discerebrating1654 failure1841 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 152 There then must needs have been an universal failure and want of Springs and Rivers all the Summer-Season. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §259 We concluded the failure had been in the Forelock of the bolt. 1841 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. viii. 126 The mind gone..utter failure of intellect. 1885 Weekly Notes 28 Mar. 67/2 The house had become uninhabitable through the failure of the water-supply. 3. a. The fact of failing to effect one's purpose; want of success; an instance of this. ΘΠ 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 1648 F. Nethersole Project for Peace 19 The failer of the timely discovery..happened..through your..default. 1667 G. Digby Elvira v. 82 I..th'other day, could scarce o're come The sense of a slight failour. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. iv. 509 All the Exceptions and Failers will lye, upon the account of ♃. 1800 E. Malone in J. Dryden Wks. I. 505 By his failure in that work he might lose the reputation which he had gained. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §1. 219 The failure of his foreign hopes threw Edward on the resources of England. 1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein II. 327 We see efforts ending in feebleness and failure. b. concrete. A thing or person that proves unsuccessful. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful failure1836 stumer1891 flop1893 dead-ender1915 no-ball1922 dead loss1927 non-performer1962 bust-out1963 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 21 This attack was a failure also. 1865 Mill in Morning Star 6 July If you elect me and I should turn out a failure. 1883 Church Times 9 Nov. 813/2 Lutheranism has been from the very first a conspicuous religious failure. 1889 Academy 1 June 369/1 The general result of efforts directed to this end is the production of..educated failures. 4. The fact of failing in business; bankruptcy, insolvency. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > financial loss > [noun] > commercial failure failing1671 failure1702 crash1817 smash1839 smashdom1859 1702 London Gaz. No. 3791/4 Divers Failures have..happened among the Traders in this City. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 5 The Bankers of Geneva were utterly ruin'd by the Failure of Mr. Bernard. 1796 Hull Advertiser 25 June 2/3 Two of these failures have occurred at Milan. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 411 A few years later..came the failure of the great Italian bankers. Draft additions January 2018 failure to thrive n. failure to survive or prosper; spec. (esp. in children and young animals) failure to grow or to gain or maintain weight. Π 1878 National Live-stock Jrnl. July 300/3 There are the general signs of ill health [in swine with intestinal worms]: a failure to thrive, or even a distinct loss of condition; a scurfy, unthrifty state of the skin [etc.]. 1894 Rev. of Rev. July 46/1 It [sc. the Populist party] shows a great riff-raff of men whose failure to thrive can, by their neighbors, be..attributed to their own indolence, viciousness, and folly. 1906 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Oct. 937/2 Infants brought to me because of difficulty in regard to feeding and consequent failure to thrive. 1993 Dog World Nov. 28/3 Malformed puppies, uterine inertia and failure to thrive are common anecdotal problems. 2004 New Yorker 6 Dec. 82/1 ‘Failure to thrive’ is what it's called, and there can be scores of explanations: pituitary disorders, hypothyroidism, genetic defects in metabolism, [etc.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1643
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