What's the difference between peremption and preemption?

Peremption


Definition:

  • (n.) A quashing; a defeating.

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Preemption


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or right of purchasing before others.
  • (n.) The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others.
  • (n.) The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This latter observation, along with nucleotide complementarity between portions of the early leader and attenuator sequences, are consistent with preemption of attenuation by the early leader.
  • (2) This sequence is also seen as a circumspection-preemption-control cycle that Kelly (1955) suggested was essential to all problem solving.
  • (3) These data suggest that antigen-nonspecific suppression mediated by alloactivated lymphocytes has two related components: 1) cytokine preemption by suppressive (alloactivated) lymphocytes, and 2) MLC responder cell dilution by the progeny of suppressive lymphocytes.
  • (4) The mechanism of suppression therefore may be identical to the preemption phenomenon recently described in primary and secondary CML.
  • (5) Protection from passive anaphylaxis in parasitized guinea pigs was most likely due to preemption of mast cell receptors by parasite-induced antibody with consequent blockage of passive sensitization.

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