No*va"tion (?), n. [L. novatio; novus new: cf. F. novation.]
1.
Innovation.
[Obs.]
I shall easily grant that novations in religion are a main cause of distempers in commonwealths.
Laud.
2. Law
A substitution of a new debt for an old one; also, the remodeling of an old obligation.
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