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debarrance rare.|dɪˈbɑːrəns| [f. as prec. + -ance.] The action of debarring; spec. the formal debarring of unworthy communicants from the Lord's Table by the ‘fencing of the table’ in Presbyterian churches: see debarration.
1861J. MacFarlane Life G. Lawson ii. (1862) 81 It is doubtful if these ‘debarrances’ (another name for this peculiar service) ever kept away one who had determined to communicate. |