Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RID'DANCE
RID'DANCE, n.
- Deliverance; a setting free; as, riddance from all adversity. – Hooker.
- Disencumbrance. – Shak.
- The act of clearing away. – Milton. Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. – Lev. xxiii.
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