Dilapidation Definition

dəlapədāzhən
noun
A dilapidating or becoming dilapidated.
Webster's New World
A dilapidated condition.
Webster's New World

(law) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or by intention.

Wiktionary

(UK, law) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention.

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Noun

Singular:
dilapidation
Plural:
dilapidations

Origin of Dilapidation

  • From dilapidate (itself from Latin dilapidare, literally "to destroy with stones", itself from dis (intensive) + lapidare, "to stone" (from lapis "stone")) + -ation

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Dilapidation Sentence Examples

  • Landlords failed to enforce repair clauses, causing a general dilapidation.

  • Since then their dilapidation has rapidly advanced; but even in ruin they show the extensive and magnificent scale on which this princely residence was originally designed.

  • His vicar-general, Sir Nathaniel Brent, went through the dioceses of his province, noting every dilapidation and every irregularity.

  • That, however, these natural causes of its dilapidation were assisted by the sacrilegious hand of man there is no lack of documentary evidence.

  • When, as sometimes happens, those revenues have been dissipated by peculation, neglect or change of times, the caravanserai passes through downward stages of dilapidation to total ruin (of which only too many examples may be seen) unless some new charity intervene to repair and renew it.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIL

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With D and Ending With N

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