Resiliate

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(Canada, law) To exit, cancel, or draw back from a lease or contract..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Canada, law) To exit, cancel, or draw back from a lease or contract.
2. (literary, uncommon) To rebound; to bounce back.
3. (literary, uncommon) To reecho, to support or amplify through similar exposition.
4. (nonstandard, uncommon) To make or become resilient.

Example Sentences

A lessee may resiliate the current lease if he is allocated a dwelling [...]. An employer may, where an employee ceases to be in his employ, resiliate a lease that is accessory to the contract of employment [...].

One of the parties may, for a serious reason, unilaterally resiliate the contract ...

[...] Tremblay decided to give Normand notice on April 19, 2001, that it intended to resiliate the contract.

The Rays, instead of being transmitted into the Air through the Glass, find the Passage shut by a Surface smooth enough to make them resiliate easily under an Angle equal to that of their Fall.

Some substances, after being compressed into smaller dimensions, resiliate when the compressing power is withdrawn, into their former volume, whithout including any internal voids or interstices which require to be filled by a foreign body.

The illness of her mother, which left her to the freedom of thought, expression, and action, characteristic of every Christian household, was a new and intoxicating experience to the girl; and, whatever else it might be possible for her to become, it was manifestly impossible that she could ever again resiliate into the moral and social mummyism of ordinary Egyptian female life.

And if the text itself virtually announces that something was suppressed then it is the pious reader's/interpreter's obligation to resiliate as much as is possible about the suppression.

The second of these complementary tasks will be to follow through and properly resiliate those portions of classical Rabbinic writings which help us to understand not only the "Exodus" portions of the ha-katuv "biblical theology" but also all the relevant portions of the Tanakh in this vein.

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• resiliates
• resiliating
• resiliated

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