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Word Meanings - ABSENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.

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  • ABSENTATION
    The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • ABSENTEEISM
    The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
  • ABSENTEE
    One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.
  • ABSENTANEOUS
    Pertaining to absence.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • ABSENTER
    One who absents one's self.
  • ABSENT-MINDED
    Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ness, n. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ly, adv.
  • ABSENTNESS
    The quality of being absent-minded. H. Miller.
  • ABSENTMENT
    The state of being absent; withdrawal. Barrow.
  • ABSENTLY
    In an absent or abstracted manner.
  • ABSENT
    1. Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. "Expecting absent friends." Shak. 2. Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent. 3. Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.

 

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