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Easement

noun

(law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land).

The act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance). Synonyms: alleviation, easing, relief.

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"Easement" Quotes from Famous Books

... lee-rail under, while he measured the weight of the wind and quested its easement. The tepid sea-water, with here and there tiny globules of phosphorescence, washed about his ankles and knees. The wind screamed a higher note, and every shroud and stay sharply chorused an answer as the Willi-Waw pressed farther over ...

— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London

... little Lizette, first of all; She comes with pouting lips and sparkling eyes; Behold, how roguishly she pins her shawl Across the narrow easement, curtain-wise; Now by the bed her petticoat glides down, And when did woman look the worse in none? I have heard since who paid for many a gown, In the brave days when ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

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