defeasance
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɪˈfiːzəns/
defeasance
- (now rare) Destruction, defeat, overthrow.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- that hoarie king, with all his traine, / Being arriued, where that champion stout / After his foes defeasance did remaine […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- (US, legal) The rendering void of a contract or deed; an annulment; to abrogate.
- Russian: аннули́рование
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