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Fayle

name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Verb
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of fail. alt-of, obsolete

    "If they ſhoulde gyue battayle it was to be doubted, leaſt through treaſon amõgſt themſelues, the armie ſhould be betrayed into the enimies hands, the which would not fayle to execute all kinde of crueltie in the ſlaughter of the whole nation."

Etymology

* As a Manx surname, reduced variant of McPhail. * As an English, Scottish and Irish surname, variant of Fail.

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