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voidance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun voidance has 1 sense
- voidance(n = noun.act) emptying, evacuation - the act of removing the contents of something; Array is a kind of remotion, removal
has particulars: drain, drainage
Derived form verb void4
CIDE DICTIONARY
voidance, n.
- The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating. [1913 Webster]
- A ejection from a benefice. [1913 Webster]
- The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent. [1913 Webster]
- Evasion; subterfuge. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
voidance, n.
1 Eccl. a vacancy in a benefice.
2 the act or an instance of voiding; the state of being voided.
1 Eccl. a vacancy in a benefice.
2 the act or an instance of voiding; the state of being voided.
Etymology
ME f. OF (as VOID)
THESAURUS
voidance
BM, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, bloody flux, bowel movement, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, catharsis, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, countermand, counterorder, crap, defeasance, defecation, dejection, depletion, diarrhea, discharging cargo, drainage, draining, dysentery, egress, elimination, emptying, evacuation, excretion, exhausting, exhaustion, flux, invalidation, lientery, loose bowels, movement, nullification, off-loading, purgation, purge, recall, recantation, removal, renege, repeal, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, runs, setting aside, shit, shits, stool, suspension, trots, turistas, unloading, vacation, vacatur, venting, voiding, waiver, waiving, withdrawal, write-off
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