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† deˈfeatment Obs.
[f. defeat v. + -ment.]
The action of defeating, defeat.
1. In battle or war; = defeat n. 3.
1598Barret Theor. Warres iv. i. 98 The cause of many defeatments. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 19 Considering the defeatments of Blackwater. 1733Millner Compend. Jrnl. 167 The Seat of the War was wholly in Flanders, removed thither by the French Defeatment.
2. Undoing, frustration, disappointment (of a purpose, design, etc.); = defeat n. 2.
1647Sprigge Anglia Rediv. i. vi. (1854) 53 Had these letters been delivered to the King (as they might have been but for this defeatment). 1674Owen Wks. (1851) VIII. 491 The defeatment of these advantages. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. 261 In defeatment of his Power and Laws in the Church. |