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PRONUNCIATION:
(noh-VAY-shuhn)
MEANING:
noun:
The replacing of an obligation, a contract, or a party to an agreement
with a new one.
ETYMOLOGY:
From novare (to make new), from novus (new). Ultimately from
the Indo-European root newo- (new) that is also the source of
new, neo-, novice, novel, novelty, innovate, renovate,
misoneism (fear of change),
and novercal (stepmotherly).
USAGE:
"They are essentially contracts meant to be honoured subject only to
agreed changes by novation."S. Rajaratnam; Direct Taxes Code; The Hindu (Chennai, India); Aug 31, 2009. See more usage examples of novation in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. -J.K. Rowling, author (b. 1965)
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