revocation (noun)

  • 91cancellation — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. canceling, annulment, nullification, abrogation, dissolution, dissolving, invalidation, invalidating, revocation, revoking, repudiation, repeal, abolition, abolishing, retraction, retracting, reversing, reversal, annulling …

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  • 92retraction — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. recantation, disowning, disavowal, abjuration, denial, revocation, recall, withdrawal, annulment, forswearing, unsaying, repudiation, nullification, quashing, abrogation, reversal, rescindment, renouncing, disclaimer,… …

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  • 93rescission — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Reversing or annulling: recall, repeal, reversal, revocation. See CONTINUE, LAW …

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  • 94Camisard — [ kamɪsα:, ˌkamɪ sα:] noun a member of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against the persecution that followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Origin Fr., from Provençal camisa, from late L. camisia shirt , because of the… …

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  • 95repeal — 1. verb the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed in 1933 Syn: revoke, rescind, cancel, reverse, annul, nullify, declare null and void, quash, abolish; Law vacate; formal abrogate; archaic recall Ant: enact 2. noun the repeal of the law Syn …

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  • 96Camisard — /ˈkæməzad/ (say kamuhzahd) noun any of the French Protestants in the Cévennes region who in the early 18th century carried on an organised resistance to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes …

  • 97reversal — /rəˈvɜsəl/ (say ruh versuhl) noun 1. the act of reversing. 2. an instance of this. 3. the state of being reversed. 4. Law the revocation of a lower court s decision by an appellate court. {revers(e) + al2} …

  • 98will — An auxiliary verb commonly having the mandatory sense of shall or must. It is a word of certainty, while the word may is one of speculation and uncertainty will, noun Wish; desire; pleasure; inclination; choice; the faculty of conscious, and… …

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  • 99ademption — əˈdem(p)shən, aˈ noun ( s) Etymology: Latin ademption , ademptio, from ademptus (past participle of adimere to take away, from ad + imere, from emere to buy, obtain) + ion , io ion more at redeem : revocation or satisfaction of a property… …

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  • 100camisard — |kamə|zärd, Fr kȧmēzȧȧr noun ( s) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: French, from French dialect camiso shirt (from Late Latin camisia) + French ard; from the peasants smocks that the Camisards wore …

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