defeasance
English
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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman defeasaunce.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈfiːzəns/
Noun
defeasance (countable and uncountable, plural defeasances)
- (now rare) Destruction, defeat, overthrow.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- that hoarie king, with all his traine, / Being arriued, where that champion stout / After his foes defeasance did remaine […]
- (US, law) The rendering void of a contract or deed; an annulment or abrogation.
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Verb
defeasance (third-person singular simple present defeasances, present participle defeasancing, simple past and past participle defeasanced)
Further reading
defeasance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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