What is an undoing or annulling; destruction. [Obs.] Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. Shak called?
defeat — An undoing or annulling; destruction. [Obs.] Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. Shak. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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