exhausture

English

Etymology

exhaust +‎ -ure

Noun

exhausture (usually uncountable, plural exhaustures)

1. (obsolete) Exhaustion.
   • 1815, Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, Historical Memoirs of My Own Time:

     Burke […] deploring the State of financial Exhausture into which we were plunged; concluded by making an ingenious and fanciful Exposition of our national Condition […]

   • 1816, The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ..., page 85:

     […] as under such physical and moral exhausture,  […]

   • 1821, sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.), The hall of Hellingsley 3 vols, page 69:

     She paused from mere exhausture : a tempest was brewing in her bosom; and her faculties seemed almost to desert her.

Latin

Participle

exhaustūre

1. vocative masculine singular of exhaustūrus