ADJOURNMENTS

Noun

adjournments

plural of adjournment

Source: Wiktionary


ADJOURNMENT

Ad*journ"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. f. adjournement, OF. ajornement. See Adjourn.]

1. The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

2. The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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RECREANT

(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”


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