Avoidance
[ə'vɒɪdəns] or [ə'vɔɪdəns]
Definition
(noun.) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening.
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Definition
(n.) The act of annulling; annulment.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
(n.) The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
(n.) The courts by which anything is carried off.
Edited by Griffith
Examples
- Lydgate's odious humors and their neighbors' apparent avoidance of them had an unaccountable date for her in their relief from money difficulties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- From the first I was tempted to make an exception to this rule of avoidance: the seclusion, the very gloom of the walk attracted me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They had not met since the day of the Van Osburgh wedding, and on his side the avoidance had been intentional. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- No one referred to it, and this tacit avoidance of the subject kept it in the immediate foreground of consciousness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance. Plato. The Republic.
- Lambert imagines that all these bodies have exactly the volume, weight, position, direction, and speed necessary for the avoidance of collisions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She saw that the mute avoidance had begun. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For the avoidance of this, holy marriage festivals will be instituted, and their holiness will be in proportion to their usefulness. Plato. The Republic.
- Selden's avoidance of Miss Bart had not been as unintentional as he had allowed his cousin to think. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was all dexterity and avoidance with them, which made the fight pretty enough to look on, but scarcely exciting from an English point of view. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Here is another set of ideas, ideas of repulsion and avoidance, that sprang up almost inevitably in men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Naomi