See avoidance in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"1": "-",
"2": "s"
},
"expansion": "avoidance (usually uncountable, plural avoidances)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of."
],
"links": [
[
"avoiding",
"avoid"
],
[
"shunning",
"shun"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"en:Law"
],
"glosses": [
"The act of annulling; annulment."
],
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"annulling",
"annulling"
],
[
"annulment",
"annulment"
]
],
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"(law, obsolete) The act of annulling; annulment."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"uncountable",
"usually"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"vacant",
"vacant"
],
[
"benefice",
"benefice"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) 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."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"The act of dismissing a person."
],
"links": [
[
"dismissing",
"dismissing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) The act of dismissing a person."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"The act of quitting a position or benefice."
],
"links": [
[
"quitting",
"quitting"
],
[
"benefice",
"benefice"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) The act of quitting a position or benefice."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "a. 1626, Francis Bacon, “XLV. Of Building”, in The essays, or councils, civil and moral […] with a table of the colours of good and evil, and a discourse of The wisdom of the ancients, published 1696, page 122:",
"text": "In the Upper Gallery too I wish that there may be, if the Place will yield it, some Fountains running in divers Places from the Wall, with some fine Avoidances.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The course by which anything (especially water) is carried off."
],
"links": [
[
"course",
"course"
],
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"carried",
"carry"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) The course by which anything (especially water) is carried off."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
}
],
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},
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{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "avoidaunce"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izbjagvane",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"word": "избягване"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otbjagvane",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"word": "отбягване"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "evitació"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "undgåelse"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vermijden"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"word": "välttäminen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"word": "karttaminen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "évitement"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vermeidung"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apofygí",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "αποφυγή"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"word": "elkerülés"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "elusione"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prevenzione"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kaihi",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"word": "回避"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "unngåelse"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "evasão"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "evitação"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "evitamento"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "evitación"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"word": "ukwepaji"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "The act of avoiding or shunning",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "undvikande"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otmenjane",
"sense": "The act of annulling",
"word": "отменяне"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "anulirane",
"sense": "The act of annulling",
"word": "анулиране"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "akýrosi",
"sense": "The act of annulling",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ακύρωση"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "The act of annulling",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "annullamento"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "torikeshi",
"sense": "The act of annulling",
"word": "取り消し"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tekkai",
"sense": "The act of annulling",
"word": "撤回"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "The act of annulling",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "anulación"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ottegljane",
"sense": "A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.",
"word": "оттегляне"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kasirane",
"sense": "A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.",
"word": "касиране"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apomákrynsi",
"sense": "A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "απομάκρυνση"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rimozione"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "evasión"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "abstinencia"
}
],
"word": "avoidance"
}
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