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Avoidance Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Avoidance? [n] deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening Synonyms \| Synonyms for Avoidance: dodging \| shunning \| turning away Related Terms \| Find terms related to Avoidance: 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 See Also \| aversion \| averting \| escape \| near thing \| rejection Avoidance In Webster's Dictionary \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.

Avoidance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Avoidance?

[n] deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Synonyms | Synonyms for Avoidance: dodging | shunning | turning away

Avoidance In Webster's Dictionary

\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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