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Extinguishment

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished. countable, uncountable

    "[…] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living […]"

  2. 2
    The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From extinguish + -ment.

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