cancellingcancelingn.
/ˈkansəlɪŋ/ The action of crossing or blotting out, annulling, rescinding, etc. (see the verb); cancellation.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > of writing, text, etc.
cancellingc1440
cancellation1535
deleting1544
deletion1590
expunction1606
retrenching1647
retrenchment1668
erasement1721
expunging1721
erasure1755
excision1858
redaction1962
society > law > rule of law > illegality > [noun] > legal invalidity or faultiness > annulment or abrogation
reversing?a1425
repealing1431
abatementc1436
cancellingc1440
annullation1449
defeasance1456
voidance1488
reversal1489
reduction1496
repeal1503
extinguishment1528
disannulling1533
abrogation1535
obrogation1535
unplacing1554
nullity1555
reversement1572
reclaim1604
disaffirmancea1626
avoidance1628
rescinding1638
cassating1647
vacating1648
voiding1649
defease1650
annulment1651
unlawing1651
defeat1657
vacuating1684
peremption1726
invalidation1771
rescindment1783
supersession1790
disaffirmation1827
disenactment1859
discharge1892
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun]
revoking1395
revocationc1400
cassationc1425
annulling1449
reclamationa1475
annulmenta1492
retractation1531
disannulling1533
abrogation1535
cancellation1535
retraction1536
extinguishment1537
undoing1540
abrenunciation1557
revocating1570
reversement1572
revokement1573
annihilation1579
revocatory1579
annullity1586
retroversion1587
rescission1594
recall1597
recision1606
disannulment1611
repeal1612
rasurea1616
cancelment1621
retractinga1624
cancelling1631
extinction1651
circumduction1726
cassing1844
recallment1845
cancel1884
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 60/1 Cancellynge or strekynge owte a false word, obelus.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Cancellynge, or defacynge of wrytynge.
1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 81 The supposed cancelling of the deed.
1870 W. E. Gladstone in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 567 The King became a party to the cancelling of the whole arrangement.
1887 Athenæum 13 Aug. 211/2 Shelley cut it up freely with cancellings and alterations.
Compounds
cancelling-press, cancelling-stamp (contrivances for defacing printed stamps, to prevent their re-use).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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