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cannott

cannott is the obsolete spelling of cannot.

Meaning of cannot

Verb

cannot

  1. Can not; be unable to (whether due to physical inability, logical impossibility, etc.).
    • I cannot open the window. It is stuck.
  2. Be forbidden or not permitted to.
    • The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the...1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575

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Questions about cannott

What is cannott the obsolete spelling of?
Cannott is the obsolete spelling of cannot.

Words near cannott in the dictionary

  1. cannot help but
  2. cannot live with them, cannot live without them
  3. cannot make it
  4. cannot-link
  5. cannots
  6. cannott
  7. canns
  8. Cannstatt
  9. cannula
  10. cannulae
  11. cannular

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