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Defunction

//dəˈfʌŋkʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Death. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Until four hundred one-and-twenty years / After defunction of King Pharamond […]"

Etymology

from Latin dēfūnctiō (“execution, performance, death”), from dēfungor (“to finish, perform, die”).

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