extinguishment

noun 2

Definitions

noun

1

The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.

[…] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living […]

2

The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.

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