avoidance
avoidance is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.
- 2.A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
- 3.The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. "The avoidance of pain." Beattie.
- 4.The courts by which anything is carried off. Avoidances and drainings of water. Bacon.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- avoid
- avolation
- away
- bacon
- belle
- bird
- break
- call
- clear
- close
- collar
- come
- coop
- creep
- deliverance
- disappear
- drawbridge
- effect
- elopement
- elude
- escape
- evasion
- find
- fire
- fled
- flight
- flown
- from
- fugitive
- get
- give
- good
- hairbreadth
- has
- hole
- impunity
- jail
- liberation
- loophole
- loose
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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