disappearancen.
/ˌdɪsəˈpɪərəns/, /ˌdɪsəˈpɪərn̩s/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈpɪrəns/ 1. The action or fact of disappearing or vanishing; an act or instance of this.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > vanishing or disappearing
vanishingc1405
vading1570
disparition1597
disappearing1610
disparence1617
disappearance1625
discharge1626
evaporating1630
evanishing1633
vanish1650
disapparition1657
evanescency1664
evanescence1751
mizzle1789
evanitiona1797
evanishment1797
evaporation1824
occultation1825
vanishment1831
furling1836
disappearing trick1870
disappearing act1884
fade-away1911
fade-out1924
1625 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Noe in tr. Part of Du Bartas 8 For this was no such inuisible departure or disappearance [Fr. disparition] as is of the soule from the body.
1653 D. Dickson Brief Explic. Other 50 Psalmes 267 Faith and hope must be set on work against all the disappearances of help.
1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5126 The Dis-appearance of those Stars may be ascribed to their Elongation from..our Eyes.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 317. ¶2 Not likely to be [remember'd] a Moment after their Disappearance.
1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 115 The usual times of the appearance and disappearance of these birds.
1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 184 Let a man learn..to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence, without losing his reverence.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire vii. 333 The final disappearance of many ideas which foster anti-social tendencies.
1920 Motor Boat (N.Y.) 10 Oct. 10/1 There was a feeling, caused by the sudden disappearance of the sun behind the mountains, that a storm was brewing.
1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 298/2 There was dramatic improvement and disappearance of the signs of congestive heart failure.
1989 M. Spufford Celebration v. 67 This indefatigable man..was not to be fobbed off by my disappearances, but ran me to ground on a ward.
2016 London (Ontario) Free Press (Nexis) 23 Apr. a3 London police continue to investigate the disappearance of a city woman.
2. spec. The abduction or arrest (esp. for political reasons) of a person who is then imprisoned or killed, his or her ultimate fate remaining concealed. Also: an instance of this. Cf. disappear v. 4b.Originally chiefly with reference to Latin America. enforced (also forced) disappearance: (Law) the clandestine abduction, arrest, or detention of a person by or on behalf of a state, which subsequently conceals or refuses to acknowledge the person's fate so as to leave the victim outside the protection of the law.
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1971 Washington Post 7 Mar. a3/6 Opponents of the Arana government [in Guatemala] charge that killings, kidnappings and disappearances have increased greatly during the last few months.
1977 Time 11 Apr. 45/3 Amnesty International..accused the military of arbitrary detention, torture, summary executions and the ‘disappearance’ of at least 500 suspects... Amnesty charges that many of the desaparecidos were innocent citizens abducted and murdered by soldiers and police in mufti.
1988 Times 1 Apr. 14/7 They found military officers had been involved in the forced disappearance of dissenting Chileans.
1991 Observer 7 Apr. 2/6 If returned to India, Karamjit Singh Chahal would be at very great risk..of ‘disappearance’ or extra-judicial execution.
2001 Independent (Electronic ed.) 26 May Amnesty had been issuing reports on torture and disappearances in Iraq for many years.
2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 June Cases of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, rape and extrajudicial killing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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