Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Concealment; seclusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But he said 'abscondence' -- either fleeing a group home or evading the oversight of a case worker -- is a serious concern.
DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 19, 2010 Mike DeBonis 2010
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He added that he was 'very concerned' about the abscondence rate and that he has made finding absconders a priority.
DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 19, 2010 Mike DeBonis 2010
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Never you mind the perceived furtive abscondence of Miette these days.
The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2005
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So listening to the warnings of his friends, he fled into hiding somewhere in the city of London, "a place of retirement and abscondence."
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The true cause of its abscondence, as in so much else of his work, was undoubtedly that ultra-Bohemian quality of indifference which distinguished Diderot -- the first in a way, probably for ever the greatest, and, above all, the most altruistic of literary Bohemians.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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It would be unkind to ask which of the "virtues" presided over Suzon's original acquaintance with her future husband, or whether the same or another undertook the charge of that wonderful six weeks 'abscondence of hers with him in this very uncle's house.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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Although printed in the little fifty-five-volume [160] edition which for so many years represented Balzac, they were excluded, as noted above, from the statelier "Définitive," and so may have once more "gone into abscondence."
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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-- DYRS has a weak policy on abscondence and oversight.
Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email. 2010
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-- DYRS has a weak policy on abscondence and oversight.
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