Definition of lapse

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Lapse (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.

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Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into.
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Delapsed :: Delapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Delaps.
Prolapsus :: Prolapsus (n.) Prolapse.
Lapsed :: Lapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Laps.
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses..
Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
Decurrence :: Decurrence (n.) The act of running down; a lapse.
Recadency :: Recadency (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.
Irrelapsable :: Irrelapsable (a.) Not liable to relapse; secure.
Collapsion :: Collapsion (n.) Collapse.
Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..
Lapsible :: Lapsible (a.) Liable to lapse.
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
Relapse :: Relapse (v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back..
Progression :: Progression (n.) Course; passage; lapse or process of time.
Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy..
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