Nonaccession

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Absence of accession. attributive, often, uncountable

    "Surprisingly, even the Muslim League rejected the proposals, its objection being that the terms of nonaccession did not, unequivocally, accept the partitioning of India and the establishment of an independent Muslim state; […]"

Example

More examples

"Surprisingly, even the Muslim League rejected the proposals, its objection being that the terms of nonaccession did not, unequivocally, accept the partitioning of India and the establishment of an independent Muslim state; […]"

Etymology

From non- + accession.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.