DEMARKATION, noun 1. The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit. 2. A limit or bound ascertained and fixed; line of separation marked or determined. The speculative line of demarkation where obedience ought to end and resistance begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.
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