Associations to the word «Defeasance»

Wiktionary

DEFEASANCE, noun. (now rare) Destruction, defeat, overthrow.
DEFEASANCE, noun. (US) (legal) The rendering void of a contract or deed; an annulment.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats