Obs. [f. as prec. + -ANCE. Cf. OF. faillance.] The quality or fact of failing; failure, neglect, falling off; an instance of the same. In failance of: for lack of.
1612. Hayward, Ann. Eliz. (Camden), 9. The fayleance wherof would eyther change or abate theyr loves.
1622. Peacham, Compl. Gent., xx. (1634), 240. Such pawse … as may afforde you meanes to discerne any failance.
1667. Decay Chr. Piety, Preface. That our more eminent conformity to the rules of our Christian institution, might supersede these disquisitions about our failances and aberrations.
1674. trans. Scheffer’s Lapland, xxvii. 125. Against all diseases inwardly they use the root of a kind of Moss, which they call Jereb, or in the failance of that, the stalke of Angelica, which they call Fadno, and is any where to be found.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, I. xii. 60. What else … should make the Success equiponderate with the Failance?
