deperdition
nounEtymology From Middle French deperdition (French déperdition).
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Archaic Synonym of loss or destruction.
- For the activity of the agent, being not able to overmaſter the reſiſtance of the patient, there will enſue no deperdition.1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 163:
- After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
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- deperdition of water from the organism1882, James Compton Burnett, Essays: