deraignment

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DERAIGNMENT, DERAINMENT, noun The act of deraining; proof; justification. A like word was formerly used in the sense of disordering, derangement, a discharge from a profession, or departure from a religious order.
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