avoidance
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- avoidaunce (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English avoidaunce, probably from Anglo-Norman. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
NounEdit
avoidance (usually uncountable, plural avoidances)
- The act of annulling; annulment.
- The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; – specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
- A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
- The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
- Any thing that is to be avoided
- The courts by which anything is carried off.
Coordinate termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
The act of annulling
A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
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The act of avoiding or shunning
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