单词 | abscondence |
释义 | abscondencen. The action or an act of absconding (cf. abscondment n.); (a) concealment, seclusion; (b) removal to a place of concealment or hiding; flight, esp. from creditors, arrest, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] privity?c1225 reclusionc1430 abstractionc1450 recess?1532 privacy1534 solitariousness1545 retirea1554 secess1570 privatenessa1586 retirednessa1586 retirement1603 secrecy1607 closeness1612 shadow1612 privatea1616 recluseness1648 abstractednessa1653 recluse1665 abscondence1694 seclusion1785 seclusiveness1822 retiracy1824 secludedness1835 retraite1843 1694 E. Phillips Life Milton in tr. J. Milton Lett. of State p. xxxvii His next removal was, by the advice of those that wisht him well, and had a concern for his preservation, into a place of retirement and abscondence. 1812 S. H. Burney Traits of Nature V. xi. 208 Others, informed of the duel in which he had once been engaged, ascribed to a second affair of the same nature, his present abscondence. 1881 Sat. Rev. 5 Mar. 299 Mr. Parnell, though he has since returned, has been in abscondence. 1919 G. Saintsbury Hist. Fr. Novel II. ii. 42 Lancelot's ‘abscondences’, with or without madness, are too many and too prolonged. 1960 Jewish Q. Rev. 51 143 What is callousness and abscondence to man, is hiding and not always being at our disposal to God. 1993 Times 5 Aug. 6/3 There were 222 abscondences last year from the jail. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1694 |
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