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Definition of Deletory
1. n. That which blots out.
Definition of Deletory
1. Noun. (obsolete) That which blots out. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deletory
1. pertaining to deletion [adj] - See also: deletion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deletory
Literary usage of Deletory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1852)
"priest; they will have no reason to admire the severity of confession : which as
it was most certainly intended as a deletory" of sin, and might do its ..."
2. Epea Ptepoenta, Or, The Diversions of Purley by John Horne Tooke (1806)
"Nor engine, nor device polemic, " Disease, nor doctor epidemic, " Though stor'd
with deletory med'cines ..."
3. The English Review (1844)
"We know no direct " deletory" of schism, as Jeremy Taylor would say, but the
apostolical government of bishops; for we are told that the end for which the ..."
4. Forget Not Mee & My Garden...": Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter by Peter Collinson (2002)
"... (for I cannot) & Show the Society the Two Species of Teeth, for you know what
Novices Wee have amongst us, & you know how deletory our Secretary is. ..."
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