About The Word Avoidance
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Avoidance
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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.
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