naufrage

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Obsolete

noun

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"May 7 1617, Francis Bacon, speech on taking his place in Chancery the opinion , not to relieve any case after judginent , would be a guilty opinion ; guilty of the ruin , and naufrage , and perishing of infinite subjects"

From French naufrage (“shipwreck”), from Latin naufragium (“shipwreck”), from nāvis (“ship”) + frangere (“to break”).

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