debarrance rare.
(dɪˈbɑːrəns)
[f. as prec. + -ance.]
The action of debarring; spec. the formal debarring of unworthy communicants from the Lord's Table by the ‘fencing of the table’ in Presbyterian churches: see debarration.
| 1861 J. MacFarlane Life G. Lawson ii. (1862) 81 It is doubtful if these ‘debarrances’ (another name for this peculiar service) ever kept away one who had determined to communicate. |