Both Uses
breach
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
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- I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it: Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field; Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travels' history: Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak,—such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.†
Scene 1.3breach = break or penetrate
- Cousin, there's fall'n between him and my lord An unkind breach: but you shall make all well.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(breach) break or failure
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A less common meaning of breach is the rising and breaking out of the water by a whale.