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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.

Thou shalt not make clean

riddance

of the corners of thy field.

Lev. xxiii. 22.

The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.

“Riddance from all adversity.”

Hooker.

, n.

Deliverance; a setting free; as riddance from all adversity.

Disencumbrance.

The act of clearing away.

Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Lev. 23.

riddance ‎(plural riddances)

The act of being rid of something.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 230c.
  And this kind of riddance is the most pleasant to listen to of all,