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defeasance
  1. (now rare) Destruction, defeat, overthrow.
  2. (US, law) The rendering void of a contract or deed; an annulment; to abrogate.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “This condition is known as the defeasance because it defeats or undoes the bond.”
      “It does look as if it is to aid the taxpayer though, does it not, because it is then subject to defeasance, if you like, under itself.”
      “However, a defeasance is not a permitted remedial action if it does not satisfy the 10 year limitation on defeasances.”
defeater
  1. One who defeats.
  2. (logic) a belief which, if proved to be true, would imply outright or indirectly that another belief were false.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The undefeated champion is hailed as the ultimate defeater in the world of professional boxing.”
      “He is not going to be the defeater in that district no matter what happens.”
      “European colonialists started eyeing the airplane as a potential defeater of colonial peoples and enforcer of colonial authority.”
defeasibility
  1. State or instance of being defeasible.
  2. Examples:
    1. “However, this is just the inevitable defeasibility of any form of inference that depends on background empirical presuppositions.”
      “In the MMR case, however, people do not want to hear about defeasibility and inductive probability.”
      “See also Makinson 1993 for a sweeping discussion of defeasibility and the place of deontic conditionals in this context.”
defeasibleness
  1. The quality of being defeasible.
defeasaunce
  1. Obsolete form of defeasance.
defeatedness
  1. The quality of being defeated.
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    1. “The defeatedness in his eyes spoke volumes about the crushing disappointment and downfall he had experienced.”
defeat
  1. The act of defeating or being defeated.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Fresh from his defeat of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, William of Normandy has returned home in triumph.”
      “His defeat at the final hurdle was a bitter pill to swallow.”
defeasement
  1. (rare, possibly nonstandard) Defeasance.
defeasibilities
  1. plural of defeasibility
defeasaunces
  1. plural of defeasaunce
defeasements
  1. plural of defeasement
defeasances
defeaters
  1. plural of defeater
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Evidence is ordinarily regarded as conclusive, not when it eliminates every conceivable defeater, but when it eliminates all relevant defeaters.”
      “In identifying defeaters that our evidence must eliminate if we are to claim knowledge, the more we prescind from practical considerations, the wider we cast our net.”
defeats
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