termination

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The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

That which ends or bounds; limit in space or extent; bound; end; as, the termination of a line.

End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of life; the termination of happiness.

End; conclusion; result.

Last purpose of design.

A word; a term.

The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.

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Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. Henry Knox

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. Potter Stewart

[B]efore the passing of the Poor-Law Bill, I wished to avoid [a] convulsive termination. I now do not wish it to be avoided. William Cobbett

Self-sacrifice is not encouraged by the Satanic religion. Therefore, unless death comes as an indulgence because of extreme circumstances which make the termination of life a welcome relief from the unendurable earthly existence, suicide is frowned upon by the Satanic religion. Anton LaVey

For most European capitalist states, the enslavement of Africans had served its purpose by the middle of the nineteenth century; but for those Africans who dealt in captives the abrupt termination of the trade at any given point was a crisis of the greatest magnitude. Walter Rodney

It is His Majesty's heart's desire to see the swift termination of the war. Howard Zinn

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