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Defeasible

adjective
1.
Capable of being annulled or voided or terminated.





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"Defeasible" Quotes from Famous Books



... constitution best, things rather seem to lean to the other extreme, which is equally to be avoided. As to the succession; the Tories think an hereditary right to be the best in its own nature, and most agreeable to our old constitution; yet at the same time they allow it to be defeasible by Act of Parliament, and so is Magna Charta too, if the legislature thinks fit; which is a truth so manifest, that no man who understands the nature of government, can ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX; • Jonathan Swift
... on the hip. not leave a leg to stand on, cut the ground from under one's feet. be confuted &c; fail; expose one's weak point, show one's weak point. counter evidence &c 468. Adj. confuting, confuted, &c v.; capable of refutation; refutable, confutable^, defeasible. contravene (counter evidence) 468. condemned on one's own showing, condemned out of one's own mouth. Phr. the argument falls to the ground, cadit quaestio [Lat.], it does not hold water, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo [Terence]; his argument ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


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