"nonencounter" meaning in All languages combined

See nonencounter on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: nonencounters [plural]
Etymology: From non- + encounter. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|non|encounter}} non- + encounter Head templates: {{en-noun}} nonencounter (plural nonencounters)
  1. Failure to encounter something or somebody.

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2013, Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower, Garry Tregidga, Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity, page 159:",
          "text": "Here, Cornish difference, particularly in the far west, is represented as originating in the insular, primitive and unworldly, and paradoxically reinforced through nonencounters with Islam.",
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          "ref": "2010, Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes:",
          "text": "Now came a series of nonencounters with his supposed boss. Nuruddin kept arranging meetings; Saladin kept making excuses not to be there: his father was sick, he himself was feeling under the weather—it was always something.",
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