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recusation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun recusation has 2 senses
- recusation(n = noun.act) recusal - (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves; Array is a kind of disqualification
- recusation(n = noun.act) Array - (law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties; Array is a kind of objection
Derived form verb recuse1
Derived form verb recuse2
CIDE DICTIONARY
recusation, n. [L. recusatio: cf. F. récusation.].
- Refusal. [1913 Webster]
- The act of refusing a judge or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality. Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
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recusation
Negation
N negation, abnegation, denial, disavowal, disclaimer, abjuration, contradiction, contravention, recusation, protest, recusancy, flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, dementi, qualification, repudiation, retraction, confutation, refusal, prohibition, denying, denied, contradictory, negative, negatory, recusant, at issue upon, no, nay, not, nowise, not a bit, not a whit, not a jot, not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so, negative, negatory, no way, no such thing, nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort, quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it, tant s'en faut, on no account, in no respect, by no, by no manner of means, negatively, never, never in a million years, at no time, there never was a greater mistake, I know better, non haec in faedera, a thousand times no.
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