uncancellation

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noun

The act of uncancelling.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noununcancellation (plural uncancellations)

plural uncancellations

  1. The act of uncancelling.

    ‘Uncancellations’ rescue many doomed TV shows

    1990 July 6, The Times-News, 85th year, number 187, Twin Falls, Ida., page B-1
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    In this final address to Whitman, what had been cancelled is declared “uncancelled,” a term that signifies the negation of that which has already been negated. In addition to its arithmetic significations, “cancel” is often used to describe the breaking of vows or covenants. The uncancellation of Whitman’s “tread” may thus be seen as the reparation of a broken covenant.

    2006, Gordon A. Tapper, “The Animal in the Machine: The Technological Sublime and Corporeal Figuration in The Bridge”, in The Machine that Sings: Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Culture of the Body, Routledge, →ISBN, page 179

    Even Gretzky and Lemieux, whose presence at the table was seen as the League's last hope during the failed “uncancellation” of the season (17–19 February 2005), are seen to represent a game long lost to its best.

    2009, Richard Harrison, “Between a Puck and a Showpiece: Spectator Sport and the Differing Responses to Hockey (and Its Absence) in Canada and the United States – A Canadian Poet Looks at the Fate of the Game”, in Andrew C. Holman, editor, Canada’s Game: Hockey and Identity, McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, part three (Buying and Selling Identities: Hockey as Commodity), page 153
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