absent
adjective
not in a certain place at a given time; away, missing (opposed to present).
had absented
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past perfectof absent.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Interestingly, one of the other very senior Likud figures, Yuli Edelstein, who had been chair of the Knesset—which is a position equivalent to speaker of the House—for many years, had absented himself.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2023
"Although she did not explain to the defendant why she had done this, it must have been obvious to him that she had absented herself because of her anxiety."
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2020
Why, I asked, did he think that the city’s African-Americans had absented themselves?
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 1, 2015
The Labor senator Jacinta Collins rejected claims the party had absented itself from a scrutiny role.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2014
They accordingly retraced their steps, and, so far as they knew, reached the camp without anyone being the wiser that they had absented themselves from it.
From Long Live the King by Guy Boothby
