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recissory

recissory is the alternative spelling of rescissory.

Meaning of rescissory

Adjective

rescissory (comparative more rescissory, superlative most rescissory)

  1. Tending to rescind; pertaining to rescission.
    • To pass a general act rescissory (as it was called), annulling all the Parliaments that had been held since the year 1633.a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published...

Forms of recissory

comparativemore recissory
superlativemost recissory

Questions about recissory

What is recissory the alternative spelling of?
Recissory is the alternative spelling of rescissory.

Words near recissory in the dictionary

  1. recircumscriptions
  2. recision
  3. recisions
  4. recission
  5. recissions
  6. recissory
  7. recit
  8. recitable
  9. recital
  10. recitalist
  11. recitalists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recissory (page history and authors); rescissory (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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