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antilapse

antilapse is the alternative form of anti-lapse.

Meaning of anti-lapse

Adjective

anti-lapse (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a statute that abrogates the common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.

Questions about antilapse

What is antilapse the alternative form of?
Antilapse is the alternative form of anti-lapse.

Words near antilapse in the dictionary

  1. antilanguages
  2. antilaplacian
  3. antilaplacians
  4. antilapsarian
  5. antilapsarians
  6. antilapse
  7. antilarval
  8. antilaser
  9. antilatency
  10. antilatent
  11. antilatitudinarian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antilapse (page history and authors); anti-lapse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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