defeature

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   defeat or undoing; disfigurement (archaic)

   The general dreaded the army's defeature in the field.

From Old French desfaiture ('undoing, ruin'), from desfait ('undone'), past participle of desfaire ('to undo'), from Latin dis- ('un-') + facere ('to do, make'). Archaic.

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