Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A failure to attend; omission of attendance; personal absence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A failure to
attend ;nonappearance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the failure to attend
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Examples
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To be sure, even among Christians, some of those we are calling lapsed are themselves the children of lapsed parents, but lapsing that is, nonattendance has risen very sharply across the generations.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Congress, from the nonattendance of a few States, have been frequently in the situation of a Polish diet, where a single veto has been sufficient to put a stop to all their movements.
Matthew Yglesias » The Filibuster Was Never a Good Idea 2010
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The hall where the ceremony took place was cold and the chill was unbearable in the silence when her nonattendance was noted.
Thor Halvorssen: Yoani Sánchez Forbidden by Cuba to Collect Her Award; CEPOS Freedom Prize Presented in Absentia Thor Halvorssen 2011
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The legislature should replace him with someone “on whom greater reliance can be had,” since the likelihood of his nonattendance was too great.5
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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On the election of delegates and also their attendance or nonattendance, see ibid., 192–230.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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One of her gentlewomen lent the princess her a copy of her own contraband English bible. 189 Throughout Mary's reign, Elizabeth's servants were regularly summoned before the Privy Council for questions about their nonattendance at Mass. 190 Although Elizabeth scrupulously conformed from 1553 onward, her servants kept forbidden books and absented themselves from Mass.
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The legislature should replace him with someone “on whom greater reliance can be had,” since the likelihood of his nonattendance was too great.5
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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The legislature should replace him with someone “on whom greater reliance can be had,” since the likelihood of his nonattendance was too great.5
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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On the election of delegates and also their attendance or nonattendance, see ibid., 192–230.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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The official reason for her nonattendance at the family Thanksgiving was that she lived seven hours away, but everyone knew that the real reason was the heat between Jen's husband and Isis.
The Cool Aunt 2010
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