nonencounter
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editnonencounter (plural nonencounters)
- Failure to encounter something or somebody.
- 2013, Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower, Garry Tregidga, Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity, page 159:
- Here, Cornish difference, particularly in the far west, is represented as originating in the insular, primitive and unworldly, and paradoxically reinforced through nonencounters with Islam.
- 2010, Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes:
- Now came a series of nonencounters with his supposed boss. Nuruddin kept arranging meetings; Saladin kept making excuses not to be there: his father was sick, he himself was feeling under the weather—it was always something.