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English
Etymology
See defy.
Pronunciation
Adjective
defiatory (comparative more defiatory, superlative most defiatory)
- (obsolete) Bidding or manifesting defiance.
(Can we date this quote?), Robert Shelford, Five pious and learned discourses:The first, of speaking great things and blasphemies, is verified in the letters defiatorie of Achmeth to Sigismund the third, king of Poland, in the yeare 1612.
References
“defiatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.