defeasance

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman defeasaunce.

Pronunciation

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Noun

defeasance (countable and uncountable, plural defeasances)

  1. (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 […]
  2. (US, law) The rendering void of a contract or deed; an annulment; to abrogate.

Translations

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