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Answer for the clue "End that may be untimely ", 6 letters:
demise

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Demise , in its original meaning, is an Anglo-Norman legal term (from French démettre , from Latin dimittere , to send away) for the transfer of an estate , especially by lease . The word has an operative effect in a lease, implying a covenant "for quiet ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French demise , fem. past participle of démettre "dismiss, put away," from des- "away" (from Latin dis- ) + Middle French mettre "put," from Latin mittere "let go, send" (see mission ). Originally "transfer of estate by will," meaning ...

Usage examples of demise.

Michael Bolton rasped out a song lamenting the demise of a love affair on the airwaves of the only station that would come in.

They were spawned by the pit, by the deaths of the Archeozoic, the Paleozoic, the successive geological periods, and along with their Intelligence received the guarantee of their own demise.

I entreat him likewise to forward my certificate of baptism, the seal with the armorial bearings of my family, and a legal certificate of my birth to the French ambassador in Venice, who will send the whole to the duke, my father, my rights of primogeniture belonging, after my demise, to the prince, my brother.

Upon the demise of the introspectionist movement in modern psychology in the early years of the twentieth century, behaviorism also adopted the principle of reductionism by studying the behavior of animals as a means to understanding human behavior.

Donnie Bichon was filled with regret for the demise of his marriage and the death of the woman he had once loved.

Consequently grain, fruits, and preserved vegetables were getting low and the villagers were complaining mightily about the extra ration of fish in their diet, since Carole was totally unwilling to whistle anything less cold-eyed and more furry to its demise on a supper table.

From astride his snorting charger, Lord Diegan glared down at his prince, who accepted his demise without rancor for mud-spoiled velvets.

German population of the Kaliningrad region was either dead or expelled or sent to Siberia, but since the demise of the Soviet Union, Kaliningrad had became a free port to attract prosperity, and the closest source of prosperity was.

Several distinct phyla are known to have existed in the Iscog prior to its demise.

But Takamatsu Castle is now the pivot of the western provinces, and its fall would surely signal the demise of the Mori clan.

That all the copyholds and customary messuages, lands, and tenements within the said manor are, and have been time out of mind, copyholds of inheritance, demised and demisable to the copyholders or customary tenants thereof, and their heirs in fee simple by copy of Court Roll, according to the custom of the said manor.

Her ignorance existed solely in the plans that were slowly, incrementally settling into place to achieve her own demise.

Moreover, in the end, Saddam devised a strategy that took advantage of our own missteps and the shortcomings of our allies to undermine the policy and help speed its demise.

Juniko the Original did have some good points, so his joint executioners agreed to reincarnate him via clonage and, opting for a nonparanoid Juniko the Second, a part of him was preserved and regrown after his assisted demise.

If his own demise were imminent, he planned to take everybody down with him--no threats, no demonstration flash in the desert for diplomatic leverage.