单词 | abscondment |
释义 | abscondmentn. rare before 19th cent. The action or an act of absconding; esp. flight from creditors, arrest, or custody.In quot. 1694: a place of concealment. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] > concealed condition hiding?c1225 concealment1608 latency1615 delitescence1632 concealedness1635 latentness1660 abscondment1694 delitescencya1697 occultation1758 latence1794 caving1867 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 284 You may observe him in Holes or hollow Banks..out of which Abscondments any Man may angle him, that contrives but a Worm neatly on the end of a Wand. 1841 Northern Star & Leeds Gen. Advertiser 30 Jan. 3/6 (headline) Abscondment of a whole board of directors, with £200,000. 1843 Times 9 Sept. 6/3 The negotiation of certain bills improperly endorsed by Mr Burdekin, on the very day..of the abscondment. 1953 D. H. Stott Saving Children from Delinquency vii. 131 Provided a lad is tolerable in his personal habits there is no reason why the authorities or the foster-parents should be discouraged by occasional abscondments. 1996 I. Bamforth Open Workings 61 Only my wife fully grasped my abscondment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1694 |
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