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noun

Absence n.

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; opposed to presence. "Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence."

Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."

Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind. "Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind." "To conquer that abstraction which is called absence."

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Etymology of 'Absence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Absence" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. Darwin's theory that accidental variations, if favourable, would accumulate and result in seemingly adaptive structures. Mr. Spencer well shows that luck or chance is insufficient as a motive-power, or helm, of evolution; but luck is only absence of design; if, then, absence of design is found to fail, it follows that there must have been design somewhere, nor can the design be more conveniently placed than in association ...

— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler

... to fever and chilled again to her queer absence of spirit.... There was a chorister at the end of the line near her, a pale young man with a spiritual face who chanted his part with shining rapt eyes. While he sang he slipped his hand under his white surplice and took out his watch. ...

— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield

... not enjoyed their union more than a year when it was interrupted by the events which called Ulysses to the Trojan war. During his long absence, and when it was doubtful whether he still lived, and highly improbable that he would ever return, Penelope was importuned by numerous suitors, from whom there seemed no refuge but in choosing one of ...

— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch

... of her ancient sanctuaries, and one or two additional ones. One thing that struck me as a painful void was, the absence of any public monument of the past events of the wonderful history of the Vaudois. It is true, in one sense, that the whole place is a museum of relics; that every rock has some thrilling tale, every mountain slope and hill-side graven upon it the memory of saints ...

— The Vaudois of Piedmont - A Visit to their Valleys • John Napper Worsfold

... mythical search for certain supplies that Mother Corey had apparently used as an alibi for their absence from the building. Sheila started to make coffee, but he shook his head and headed for the bed. She yawned and nodded, fingering the stitches that still ran down the blanket to divide it. Then she grimaced faintly ...

— Police Your Planet • Lester del Rey

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