absentedadj.
/əbˈsɛntᵻd/, /abˈsɛntᵻd/, U.S. /æbˈsɛn(t)əd/ Withdrawn, retired; absent.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxvii. sig. Ff6 Imboldned by your absented maner of liuing.
a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) i But tell me Gallio..to whose keep Hast thou committed thy absented sheep.
1657 Bp. H. King Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes & Sonnets 44 Such as have been there Where the absented Sun benights the year.
1739 W. Wyndham (title) A letter from an absented Member to a friend at Westminster.
1978 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 122 87 The absented owners who, all their thoughts buried in past traditions, neglect their present estates.
1994 B. L. Estrin Laura 153 The absented lover drowns out—with his tears—even a remnant of a poem.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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