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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not solvent; insolvent.
- noun An insolvent.
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- adjective
insolvent - noun An insolvent person
- noun chemistry A liquid that is not a (very good)
solvent
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Examples
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What on this account we owe to the Son, is praise, thankfulness, and obedience, and not the debt which he took upon himself and discharged for us, when we were nonsolvent, by his love.
A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity 1616-1683 1965
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[103] methinks this gives much light to the truth in hand: for, what is a surety, but one that undertakes to pay whatsoever he, whose surety he is, is bound to pay, in case the debtor proves nonsolvent, or unable to pay it himself?
Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I. 1637-1708 1834
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