abscondence

[ab-skon-duhns]

noun

1. hiding, especially to avoid legal proceedings.

Word History and Origins

Origin of abscondence¹

First recorded in 1875–80; abscond + -ence

Example Sentences

The abscondence arrests go the heart of the city’s rehabilitation program for young offenders.

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The true cause of its abscondence, as in so much else of his work, was undoubtedly that ultra-Bohemian quality of indifference which distinguished Diderot—the first in a way, probably for ever the greatest, and, above all, the most altruistic of literary Bohemians.

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So listening to the warnings of his friends, he fled into hiding somewhere in the city of London, "a place of retirement and abscondence."

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