Abscission

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Abscission [1]

(1): (n.) The act or process of cutting off.

(2): (n.) The state of being cut off.

(3): (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity - but I need say no more."

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