Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
rasure .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See
rasure . - noun An erasure; a change made by erasing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
erasing oreffacing , or the state of being effaced;obliteration . - noun An
erasure ; a change made by erasing.
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Examples
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Oblivion, after life is, 750. bury in, 201. second childishness and mere, 69. stretch her wing, 347. tooth of time and razure of, 49.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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This is a truth so evident, that the most likely way of accounting for the silence of the records on this head, is by supposing that the authority of some churchmen was so great as to procure a razure, with regard to these circumstances, which the indiscretion of one of that order has happily preserved to us.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. David Hume 1743
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The affair of Skinner still remained a ground of quarrel between the two houses; but the king prevailed with the peers to accept of the expedient proposed by the commons, that a general razure should be made of all the transactions with regard to that disputed question.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. David Hume 1743
qms commented on the word razure
If sin should take its heavy toll
A conscience cure should be your goal.
If you cannot stay pure
Then seek a razure;
Let shrift amend your battered soul.
December 12, 2015