deperdition

See also: déperdition

English

Noun

deperdition (countable and uncountable, plural deperditions)

  1. (archaic) Loss; destruction
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 163:
      For the activity of the agent, being not able to overmaſter the reſiſtance of the patient, there will enſue no deperdition.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for deperdition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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