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語源 1

defeat +‎ -ure

名詞

defeature

1. Defeat, overthrow, ruin.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 4, canto 6:

     This mischiefe framd, for their first loves defeature

語源 2

de- +‎ feature

動詞

defeature (三人称単数 現在形 defeatures, 現在分詞 defeaturing, 過去形および過去分詞形 defeatured)

1. (rare) To deform.

名詞

defeature (複数形 defeatures)

1. Disfigurement, defacement, deformation.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     What ruins are in me that can be found, / By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground / of my defeatures.

   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 2, page 9:

     But no discovery was made, for no volley of reproach was uttered, and could they have looked in their mother's face they might have seen that strange defeatures were written there.