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Definition of Lapsing
1. Noun. A failure to maintain a higher state.
Generic synonyms: Failure
Specialized synonyms: Recidivism
Derivative terms: Lapse, Lapse, Relapse, Relapse, Relapse, Revert
Definition of Lapsing
1. Verb. (present participle of lapse) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lapsing
1. lapse [v] - See also: lapse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lapsing
Literary usage of Lapsing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"With all his zeal for religion, man is constantly lapsing into offences against
the Deity. These offences, whether ritual or moral, deliberate or ..."
2. The Philebus of Plato by Plato, Robert Gregg Bury (1897)
"But in lapsing thus from Pantheism into Deism, Aristotle has had, at least, a
respectable following—witness Fichte and Schelling. V. THE GOOD. ..."
3. Cotenancy and Partition: A Treatise on the Law of Co-ownership as it Exists by Abraham Clark Freeman (1874)
"lapsing of Legacies and Devises, $ 40. To what kinds of Property Joint-Tenancy
may «till apply, $ 41. Mortgages, $ 42. Co-Trustees under American Statutes, ..."
4. Studies in Roman Law, with Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England by Thomas Mackenzie Mackenzie (1865)
"... so as to prevent the bequest from lapsing.2 m. — SCOTTISH LAW. Rules of In
Scotland it has been repeatedly decided that wherever as ..."
5. The Canadian Budgetary System by Harold Garrison Villard, Westel Woodbury Willoughby, Frederick Albert Cleveland (1918)
"As a necessary sequence to the system of lapsing appropriations in vogue in Canada,
... lapsing ..."
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