miscontinuance

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ continuance?

Noun

miscontinuance (usually uncountable, plural miscontinuances)

  1. (law) discontinuance
  2. (law) continuance by undue process

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for miscontinuance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)