Word Meanings - AVOIDANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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, . . .

Additional info about word: AVOIDANCE

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AVOIDANCE)

• Dissilience
• Avoidance
• repulsion
• aversion
• dislike
• interrepugnance
• antipathy

Related words: (words related to AVOIDANCE)

• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• AVERSION
  1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of
• AVOIDANCE
  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, . . .
• DISLIKENESS
  Unlikeness. Locke.
• ANTIPATHY
  1. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington. 2. Natural contrariety;
• DISSILIENCE; DISSILIENCY
  The act of leaping or starting asunder. Johnson.
• DISLIKELIHOOD
  The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
• DISLIKEN
  To make unlike; to disguise. Shak.
• DISLIKER
  One who dislikes or disrelishes.
• DISLIKEFUL
  Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. Spenser.
• REPULSION
  The power, either inherent or due to some physical action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as, molecular repulsion; electrical repulsion. (more info) 1.
• CONTRAVERSION
  A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.
• EXTRAVERSION
  The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. Boyle.