Meanings
plural exhaustures
- obsoleteuncountableusuallyExhaustion.
[…] as under such physical and moral exhausture, […]
1816, The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ..., page 852 more examples
Burke […] deploring the State of financial Exhausture into which we were plunged; concluded by making an ingenious and fanciful Exposition of our national Condition […]
1815, Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, Historical Memoirs of My Own TimeShe paused from mere exhausture : a tempest was brewing in her bosom; and her faculties seemed almost to desert her.
1821, sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.), The hall of Hellingsley 3 vols, page 69
Origin
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exhausture. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exhausture
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