Crossword-Solution: DISCONTINUANCE
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| Discontinuance | n. | The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel. |
| Discontinuance | n. | A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States. |
| Discontinuance | n. | The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action. |
| Discontinuance | n. | That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered. |
We have 100 clues for the answer “DISCONTINUANCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| discontinuation | 5 answers |
| disestablishment | 9 answers |
| disuse | 9 answers |
| deposal | 11 answers |
| Parenthesis | 28 answers |
| cancelling | 32 answers |
| inactivation | 32 answers |
| inactivating | 32 answers |
| remanet | 36 answers |
| PASSIVE state | 40 answers |
| cold storage | 40 answers |
| tabling | 41 answers |
| putting off | 42 answers |
| Deferring | 42 answers |
| shelving | 42 answers |
| moratorium | 43 answers |
| interregnum | 44 answers |
| Doing nothing | 46 answers |
| Demotion | 47 answers |
| Procrastination. | 49 answers |
| demurral | 49 answers |
| Delaying | 51 answers |
| Adjournment | 52 answers |
| Doldrums | 54 answers |
| tarrying | 58 answers |
| drowsiness | 58 answers |
| interlude | 59 answers |
| Thoughtlessness? | 59 answers |
| languorousness | 61 answers |
| slothfulness | 62 answers |
| Indolence | 62 answers |
| Sluggishness | 63 answers |
| Inertia | 63 answers |
| Laziness | 64 answers |
| discontinuity | 64 answers |
| Lassitude | 64 answers |
| Loitering. | 64 answers |
| peaceful state | 65 answers |
| inattentiveness | 65 answers |
| deferral | 65 answers |
| intervention | 65 answers |
| dismissal | 65 answers |
| Passivity | 65 answers |
| Apathy | 65 answers |
| Hiatus | 65 answers |
| Gap | 65 answers |
| Listlessness | 66 answers |
| Languor | 66 answers |
| abeyance | 66 answers |
| interim | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DISCONTINUANCE (5)
Still I hoped that it might not be unattended with good; for I thought that one inevitable and most welcome consequence would result from this painful eclaircissment, in the discontinuance of my cousin's odious persecution.
The cities, therefore, will perish first with the discontinuance of the money economy, and second with shortage of natural resources.
Hence, in the elder Walter's hands, the paper was not only unprofitable in itself, but its maintenance became a source of gradually increasing expenditure; and the proprietor seriously contemplated its discontinuance.
Skinner noticed the occurrence of a scarlatiniform eruption in a woman after the dose of 1/165 grain of strychnin, which, however, disappeared with the discontinuance of the drug.
This provision is absolute, and the estate reverts in its discontinuance, but may I be permitted to observe that the majority of men, myself among the number, are content to spend the most of their lives, not merely in the confines of a kingdom, but between the four walls of a room, for much less than ten thousand pounds a year.
Quotes with DISCONTINUANCE (3)
As often is the case with addictions, the fanciful notion of a gradual discontinuance only provided a comforting pretext for more sustained indulgence.
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.