Talk:frustrate

Latest comment: 7 months ago by Hermes Thrice Great in topic Missing (Archaic) Verb Definition?

Missing noun? edit

Search Google Books for "the dead frustrates of diatoms and radiolaria". Equinox 18:26, 1 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

Missing (Archaic) Verb Definition? edit

If you do a Google Search for the phrase "renounce, frustrate", you will find dozens of old last wills and testaments from 17th and 18th century America that use some variation of the phrase:

 

I do revoke, renounce, frustrate, and make void all wills by me formerly made […]".

 

This seems to be a different usage than "to hinder, thwart", or any of the other definitions given, meaning something more like "to cancel".

Does anyone else have any more information or input on this?

Hermes Thrice Great (talk) 09:40, 11 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

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