Meaning of AVOIDANCE
| Pronunciation: | | u'voydns
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| | Definition: | | [n] deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening |
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| | Synonyms: | | dodging, shunning, turning away |
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| | See Also: | | aversion, averting, escape, near thing, rejection | |
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| | Definition: | | Avoidance
As a graduate student, Jeremy Stull has spent some time with the Amish in Pennsylvania, and admires their quiet sense of community--something he has longed for in his own life but failed to achieve. Spending his summer as a camp counselor, Jeremy comes into contact with young Max, who turns out to be not what he seems--and with whom Jeremy falls dangerously in love. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \A*void"ance\, n.
1. The act of annulling; annulment.
2. 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.
Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's
chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some
one or other clapped in before him. --Fuller.
3. A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
4. The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. ``The
avoidance of pain.'' --Beattie.
5. The courts by which anything is carried off.
Avoidances and drainings of water. --Bacon.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, asceticism, banyan day, celibacy, chastity, continence, cringe, dodge, duck, elusion, Encratism, eschewal, evasion, fallback, fast, fish day, flinch, Friday, fruitarianism, gymnosophy, Lenten fare, nephalism, plain living, pullback, pullout, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, recoil, refraining, refrainment, retreat, runaround, sexual abstinence, Shakerism, shunning, shy, sidestep, sidestepping, simple diet, spare diet, Spartan fare, Stoicism, teetotalism, the pledge, total abstinence, vegetarianism, wince |
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