Etymology

discomfiture

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Today it means: Defeat in battle. Full definition →

Old French desconfiture
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  1. Old French · derived fromdesconfiture“rout, defeat”
  2. English todaydiscomfiture

From Old French desconfiture (“rout, defeat”); compare French déconfiture.

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