nonpayment

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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From Middle English nonpayement, nonpaiement, nounpaiement, non paiement, equivalent to non (“no”, adjective) + payment.

So we in Lattimore, who a few weeks ago had been ready to sacrifice anything for the keeping of our good name; who by stealth justly foreclosed mortgages justly due, lest the world should wonder at their nonpayment; who so greatly had rejoiced in our own strength; who had felt that, surely, we who had wrought such wonders could not now fail:--even we numbly came to regard receiverships and assignments as quite the thing to be expected. — Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee Magic, Herbert Quick

default, nonremittal

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