vbl. sb. [f. CANCEL v.]

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  1.  The action of crossing or blotting out, annulling, rescinding, etc. (see the verb); cancellation.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 60/1. Cancellynge or strekynge owte a false word, obelus.

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1552.  Huloet, Cancellynge, or defacynge of wrytynge.

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1631.  Star Chamb. Cases (1886), 81. The supposed cancelling of the deed.

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1870.  Gladstone, Glean., IV. xxv. 216. The King became a party to the cancelling of the whole arrangement.

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1887.  Athenæum, 13 Aug., 211/2. Shelley cut it up freely with cancellings and alterations.

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  2.  Comb., as cancelling-press, -stamp (contrivances for defacing printed stamps, to prevent their re-use).

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