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Razure

Razure \Ra"zure\ (r[=a]"zh[-u]r; 135), n. [See Rasure.]

  1. The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.

  2. An erasure; a change made by erasing.

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razure

n. 1 The act of erase or efface, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. 2 An erasure; a change made by erasing.

Usage examples of "razure".

This is a truth so evident, that the most likely way of accounting for the silence of the records on this head, is by supposing that the authority of some churchmen was so great as to procure a razure, with regard to these circumstances, which the indiscretion of one of that order has happily preserved to us.