riddance

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RID'DANCE, noun 1. Deliverance; a setting free; as riddance from all adversity. 2. Disencumbrance. 3. The act of clearing away. Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Leviticus 23:22.
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