infausting

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Noun

infausting (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, nonce word) The act of making unlucky; misfortune.
    • 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 179:
      He did withal bring a kind of malediction and infausting upon the marriage, as an ill prognostic...

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “infausting”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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