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exhausture en · NOUN

Etymology

From exhaust + -ure.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) Exhaustion.
   • 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 Time:
   • She 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:
   • […] as under such physical and moral exhausture, […] 1816, The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ..., page 85:

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