Definition of "declinature" []

• The act of declining or refusing. (noun)

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• "The only men who behaved unhandsomely on the occasion were some of the Irish members, advocates of Repeal, who, with more than national brass, grounded their declinature on the galling yoke of the Saxon, and retreated to Connemara, doubtless exulting that in this instance at least they had freed themselves from "hereditary bonds.""
• "Reid did not undertake to settle that point -- a wise declinature, in the estimation of Mr"
• "His declinature was taken so hotly by the King and Arran that all who were present felt he was as good as a dead man; but 'Mr. Andro, never jarging [9] nor daschit [10] a whit, with magnanimus courage, mightie force of sprit and fouthe [11] of evidence of reason and langage, plainly tauld the King and"