Voidance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Voidance \Void"ance\, n.
     1. The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.
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     2. (Eccl.) A ejection from a benefice.
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     3. The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which
        is without an incumbent.
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     4. Evasion; subterfuge. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  voidance
       n : the act of removing the contents of something [syn: {emptying},
            {evacuation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "voidance":
     BM, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, bloody flux,
     bowel movement, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation,
     catharsis, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, countermand,
     counterorder, crap, defeasance, defecation, dejection, depletion,
     diarrhea, discharging cargo, drainage, draining, dysentery, egress,
     elimination, emptying, evacuation, excretion, exhausting,
     exhaustion, flux, invalidation, lientery, loose bowels, movement,
     nullification, off-loading, purgation, purge, recall, recantation,
     removal, renege, repeal, rescinding, rescindment, rescission,
     retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, runs,
     setting aside, shit, shits, stool, suspension, trots, turistas,
     unloading, vacation, vacatur, venting, voiding, waiver, waiving,
     withdrawal, write-off