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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From defeat + -ure.
Noun
defeature
- Defeat, overthrow, ruin.
Etymology 2
From de- + feature.
Verb
defeature (third-person singular simple present defeatures, present participle defeaturing, simple past and past participle defeatured)
- (rare) To deform.
Noun
defeature (plural defeatures)
- Disfigurement, defacement, deformation.
c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :What ruins are in me that can be found, / By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground / of my defeatures.
1842, , chapter XXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, 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.