dispurveyance

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ purveyance.

Noun

dispurveyance (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Lack of provisions.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
      No fort so fensible, no wals so strong, / But that continuall battery will riue, / Or daily siege through dispuruayance long, / And lacke of reskewes will to parley driue […]
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