| brisance | (noun) the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion | - |
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| cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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| conversance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversancy, familiarity |
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| conversancy | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, familiarity |
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| impuissance | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, weakness |
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| incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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| malfeasance | (noun) wrongful conduct by a public official | - |
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| misfeasance | (noun) doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner | - |
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| nonfeasance | (noun) a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do | - |
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| nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| obeisance | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obedience |
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| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, bowing |
| pleasance | (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasure |
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| (noun) a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion | - |
| puissance | (noun) power to influence or coerce | - |
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| recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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| reconnaissance | (noun) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) | Synonyms: reconnaissance mission |
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| recusancy | (noun) refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England | - |
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| sacrosanct | (adjective) must be kept sacred | Synonyms: inviolable, inviolate |
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| sanctification | (noun) a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | - |
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| sanctified | (adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: consecrated, sacred |
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| sanctify | (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, purify |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, hallow |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanction |
| sanctimonious | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, self-righteous |
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| sanctimoniously | (adverb) in a sanctimonious manner | Synonyms: self-righteously |
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| sanctimoniousness | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimony |
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| sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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| sanction | (noun) the act of final authorization | - |
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| (noun) a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards | - |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, warrant |
| (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: approve, O.K., okay |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanctify |
| (verb) give authority or permission to | - |
| sanctionative | (adjective) implying sanction or serving to sanction | Synonyms: sanctioning |
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| sanctioned | (adjective) established by authority; given authoritative approval | Synonyms: approved |
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| (adjective) formally approved and invested with legal authority | Synonyms: ratified |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonic, canonical |
| sanctioning | (adjective) implying sanction or serving to sanction | Synonyms: sanctionative |
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| sanctitude | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctity |
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| sanctity | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctitude |
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| sanctuary | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, chancel |
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| (noun) a shelter from danger or hardship | Synonyms: asylum, refuge |
| (noun) a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept | - |
| sanctum | (noun) a place of inviolable privacy | Synonyms: sanctum sanctorum |
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| (noun) a sacred place of pilgrimage | Synonyms: holy, holy place |
| unsanctification | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: profaneness |
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| unsanctified | (adjective) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | Synonyms: profane, unconsecrated |
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| unsanctify | (verb) remove the sanctification from or make unsanctified | - |
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| unsanctioned | (adjective) without explicit official permission | - |
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| usance | (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usage |
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| (noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services |
| (noun) the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange) | - |