failance
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French faillance, from faillir. Doublet of fallency.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
failance (countable and uncountable, plural failances)
- (obsolete) fault; failure; omission
- 1810, John Fell, “Henry Hammond”, in Ecclesiastical Biography:
- […] always made it necessary for him not to stir from his chair, or so much as read a letter, for two hours after every meal, failance wherein being certainly revenged by a sit of the gout […]