easement
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
easement
(law) The legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way). - The power company has an easement to put their electricity poles along the edge of this land.
- (architecture) An element such as a baseboard, handrail, etc., that is curved instead of abruptly changing direction.
- (archaic) Easing, relief.
- 1666, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Or, A Brief and Faithful Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bvnyan, London: Printed by George Larkin, OCLC 12787585 ↗; 6th corr. edition, London: Printed for Nath. Ponder, at the Pea-cock in the Poultry, over against the Stocks-Market, 1688, OCLC 643954458 ↗, pages 92–93 ↗:
- But now, thought I, if this ſin is not unto death, then it is pardonable; therefore from this I have encouragement to come to God by Chriſt for mercy; to conſider the promiſe of forgiveneſs, as that which ſtands with open arms to receive me, as well as others. This therefore was a great eaſement to my mind; to wit, that my ſin was pardonable, that it was not the ſin unto death, […]
- 1666, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Or, A Brief and Faithful Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bvnyan, London: Printed by George Larkin, OCLC 12787585 ↗; 6th corr. edition, London: Printed for Nath. Ponder, at the Pea-cock in the Poultry, over against the Stocks-Market, 1688, OCLC 643954458 ↗, pages 92–93 ↗:
- (archaic, euphemistic) The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating.
- (model railroading) Transition spiral curve track between a straight or tangent track and a circular curved track of a certain radius or selected radius.
- Assistance.
- Support.
- Gratification.
- French: servitude
- German: Dienstbarkeit
- Italian: servitù
- Portuguese: servidão
- Russian: сервитут
- Spanish: servidumbre
- Spanish: alivio
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