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cancelling, vbl. n.|ˈkænsəlɪŋ|
[f. cancel v.]
1. The action of crossing or blotting out, annulling, rescinding, etc. (see the verb); cancellation.
c1440Promp. Parv. 60/1 Cancellynge or strekynge owte a false word, obelus. 1552Huloet, Cancellynge, or defacynge of wrytynge. 1631Star Chamb. Cases (1886) 81 The supposed cancelling of the deed. 1870Gladstone Glean. IV. xxv. 216 The King became a party to the cancelling of the whole arrangement. 1887Athenæum 13 Aug. 211/2 Shelley cut it up freely with cancellings and alterations.
2. Comb., as cancelling-press, cancelling-stamp (contrivances for defacing printed stamps, to prevent their re-use). |