defeasible

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Scrabble points: 16
Words With Friends: 18
Letters: 10

Pronunciation

[dɪˈfiːzɪbəɫ](UK)

Definition of defeasible

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

Capable of being defeated, terminated, annulled, voided or invalidated.

“The accounting charge for the non-callable debt is defeasible by an escrow.”
“Languages are acquired mainly through the exercise of defeasible inductive methods, based on experience of linguistic communication.”

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Etymology

Back-formation from defeasance + -ible, from Anglo-Norman defesaunce, Old French desfaisance, a deverbal noun from desfaire (“to undo”) (Modern French défaire), from des- (“un-, apart”) + fere, faire (“to do”) + -able, reflecting Latin dis- + facere + -ābilis. Near-doublet of defeatable.

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