Obs. rare. [f. BANKRUPT v. + -URE.] An earlier term for BANKRUPTCY.

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1617.  Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. ix. 367. Bankruptures of religion.

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1622.  Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. 7. In what Consistory … hath Bankrupture beene … condemned for a Sinne?

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