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Word Meanings - WITHDRAWAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.

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  • RECESSED
    1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch , one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond
  • RETREATFUL
    Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
  • RETREATMENT
    The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
  • WITHDRAWAL
    The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
  • RECESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
  • RETIREMENT
    1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
  • SECESSIONISM
    The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.
  • HOLIDAY
    A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday. Note: In the United States legal holidays, so called, are determined by law, commonly by the statutes of the several States. The holidays most generally observed are: the 22d day of
  • SECESSION
    The withdrawal of a State from the national Union. Secession Church . See Seceder. (more info) 1. The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.
  • RECESS
    A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be
  • VACATION
    Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess. "With lawyers in the vacation." Shak. The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational
  • PRIVACY
    1. The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion. 2. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement. Her sacred privacies all open lie. Rowe. 3. Concealment of what is said
  • RECESSION
    The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor.
  • RECESSIVE
    Going back; receding.
  • SECESSIONIST
    One who holds to the belief that a State has the right to separate from the Union at its will. (more info) 1. One who upholds secession.
  • CAVITY
    1. Hollowness. The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin. 2. A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed
  • SECLUSION
    The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion. O blest seclusion from a jarring world, which he, thus occupied, enjoys! Cowper. Syn. -- Solitude;
  • RETREAT
    retrahere; pref. re- re- + trahere to draw. See Trace, and cf. 1. The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable. In a retreat he oShak. 2. The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy
  • SEPARATION
    The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Specifically: Chemical analysis. Divorce. The operation of removing water from steam. Judicial separation , a form of divorce; a separation of man and wife which has the effect
  • PRECESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
  • CONCAVITY
    A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.
  • BLINDMAN'S HOLIDAY
    The time between daylight and candle light.
  • PRECESSOR
    A predecessor. Fuller.

 

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