Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Voidance"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Voidance \Void"ance\, n.
1. The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.
2. (Eccl.) A ejection from a benefice.
3. The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which
is without an incumbent.
4. Evasion; subterfuge. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
voidance
n : the act of removing the contents of something [syn: {emptying},
{evacuation}]
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