voidance

Example Sentences

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Of course, Marjorie Moss and Georges Fontana float through their waltz scene to threaten voidance of Pavlowa's lifelong lease on "incomparable."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, as they continued their journey, the squire hearkening attentively to the knight's words, they came to a river, and while there they watered the beasts, the mule made a voidance in the stream.

From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)

So he said to the merchant, "Verily, thou exaggeratest in doing us honour; but, by Allah, I will not eat of thy meat until thou tell me what hath caused the voidance of yonder house."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

To ask for comity in the matter was to ask for the voidance of the treaty.

From History of the United States, Volume 4 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin

Loss of claim Another penalty was the voidance of a claim.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)