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non-ˈintercourse
[non- 1.]
Want of intercourse. b. attrib. in non-intercourse act, in U.S. Hist., an act of 1809 prohibiting ships from France and Great Britain from entering American ports. Also humorously allusive.
1809Jefferson Writ. (1829) IV. 131 This view is derived from the former non-intercourse law only. 1809Malkin Gil Blas xi. vii. ⁋5 You must submit to an embargo on your wit, and a non-intercourse act between you and the faculty of writing. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 371, I intend to try the effect of non-intercourse, and to break with her outright. 1888A. Johnston in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 759/1 The use of non-intercourse agreements as revolutionary weapons against Great Britain. |