Declinature

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of declining or refusing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of declining or refusing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of declining or refusing; declension. See extract under declension, 3.
  • n. Specifically In Scots law, the privilege which a party has, in certain circumstances, to decline judicially the jurisdiction of the judge before whom he is cited.
  • Word Usage
    "His declinature was taken so hotly by the King and Arran that all who were present felt he was as good as a dead man; but 'Mr. Andro, never jarging [9] nor daschit [10] a whit, with magnanimus courage, mightie force of sprit and fouthe [11] of evidence of reason and langage, plainly tauld the King and"