The Collaborative International Dictionary
Defeature \De*fea"ture\ (?; 135), n. [OF. desfaiture a killing, disguising, prop., an undoing. See Defeat, and cf. Disfeature.]
Overthrow; defeat. [Obs.] ``Nothing but loss in their defeature.''
--Beau. & Fl.Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] ``Strange defeatures in my face.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. defeat, overthrow, ruin. Etymology 2
n. disfigurement, defacement, deformation. vb. (lb en rare) To deform.
Usage examples of "defeature".
And therefore hath she bribed the DestiniesTo cross the curious workmanship of nature,To mingle beauty with infirmities,And pure perfection with impure defeature,Making it subject to the tyrannyOf mad mischances and much misery.
Grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time’s deformed hand Have written strange defeatures o’er my face.