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Definition of "non-fulfilment" []

  • Neglect or failure to fulfil: as, the non-fulfilment of a promise or bargain. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "non-fulfilment" in a sentence
  • "I was promised a Port by the Company for my money, and I intend to protest against receiving any Sections of land on this coast, and to bring an action against the Company for their non-fulfilment of the contract between us, I claiming a return of my money paid to them, together with every expence to which I have been put, and damages of all sorts which the law will allow."
  • "The proprietors of this little work having determined on reprinting it, some explanation seems called for, to account for the non-appearance of a third part promised in the London Magazine of December last; and the more so because the proprietors, under whose guarantee that promise was issued, might otherwise be implicated in the blame — little or much — attached to its non-fulfilment."
  • "All Cossacks make their own wine, and drunkenness is not so much a general tendency as a rite, the non-fulfilment of which would be considered apostasy."