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Antonyms for rescinded

Grammar : Verb
Spell : ri-sind
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈsɪnd


Definition of rescinded

Origin :
  • 1630s, from French rescinder "cut off, cancel" (15c.), and directly from Latin rescindere "to cut off, tear off, abolish," from re- "back" (see re-) + scindere "to cut, split" (see shed (v.)). Related: Rescinded; rescinding.
  • verb declare null and void
Example sentences :
  • Wholesale pardons which could easily be rescinded afterwards.
  • Extract from : « The Elusive Pimpernel » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • I demanded that his order should be rescinded; but he was haughty and impudent in his manner.
  • Extract from : « Dikes and Ditches » by Oliver Optic
  • The death sentence was rescinded, of course, pending this new trial.
  • Extract from : « A German Pompadour » by Marie Hay
  • In 1710 the Act for Ports, like its predecessors, was rescinded.
  • Extract from : « The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia » by C. Malcolm Watkins
  • The protest was heeded by the Czar and the ukase was rescinded.
  • Extract from : « The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen » by Simon Wolf
  • Celibacy was at first imposed as a rule of the community, but later was rescinded.
  • Extract from : « Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, Part III (the Text Being Chapters XXVIII-XXXIII of the London Edition, 1843, and the Appendix a Combination of the Appendices of the London and German [Coblentz, 1839] Editions) » by Maximilian, Prinz von Wied
  • No concession was to be made, nothing was to be promised, until the Covenant had been rescinded.
  • Extract from : « Montrose » by Mowbray Morris
  • The Orders in Council were also rescinded in the summer of 1812.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 » by Daniel Webster
  • The convention can be rescinded only after a two years' notice.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 » by Various
  • Randolph, the English resident, foresaw that the Acts might be rescinded.
  • Extract from : « John Knox and the Reformation » by Andrew Lang

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