Meanings
plural exploitures
- obsoleteThe act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement.
Whose seruice thou canst not lacke for th'exploiture of such affaires.
1549, Erasmus, “(please specify the book of the Bible, or other title)”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall; et al.], transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche - obsoleteexploitation (e.g. of a mine)
The plot of the tragedy at hand was the very old one of the decoy and the ambuscade—a plot, it seems, which was never so old but that it rewarded some further exploiture by Marion.
1883, Harper's Magazine
Origin
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