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defeasaunce

defeasaunce is the obsolete form of defeasance.

Meaning of defeasance

Noun

defeasance (countable and uncountable, plural defeasances)

  1. (archaic) Destruction, defeat, overthrow.
    • that hoarie king, with all his traine, / Being arriued, where that champion stout / After his foes defeasance did remaine […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (US) The rendering void of a contract or deed; an annulment or abrogation.

See all 3 meanings of defeasance

Forms of defeasaunce

pluraldefeasaunces

Questions about defeasaunce

What is defeasaunce the obsolete form of?
Defeasaunce is the obsolete form of defeasance.

Words near defeasaunce in the dictionary

  1. DEFCON
  2. defeasance
  3. defeasanced
  4. defeasances
  5. defeasancing
  6. defeasaunce
  7. defeasaunces
  8. defease
  9. defeased
  10. defeasement
  11. defeasements

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defeasaunce (page history and authors); defeasance (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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