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avoidance [əˈvɔɪdəns] n 1. the act of keeping away from or preventing from happening 2. (Law) Law a. the act of annulling or making void b. the countering of an opponent's plea with fresh evidence 3. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) Ecclesiastical law the state of a benefice having no incumbent Individual and/or unit measures taken to avoid or minimize nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) attacks and reduce the effects of NBC hazards. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
avoidance noun 2. prevention, safeguard, precaution, anticipation, thwarting, elimination, deterrence, forestalling, prophylaxis, preclusion, obviation Improve your health by stress avoidance Translations avoidance n → Vermeidung f; the avoidance of inheritance tax → die Umgehung der Erbschaftssteuer; his careful avoidance of the truth → sein ständiges Umgehen der Wahrheit; thanks only to her steady avoidance of bad company → nur weil sie konsequent schlechte Gesellschaft mied avoidance [əˈvɔɪd/əns] n her avoidance of me has been noticed by everyone → tutti hanno notato che mi evita his avoidance of his duty → la sua mancanza al dovere see also tax avoidance [əˈvɔɪd/əns] n her avoidance of me has been noticed by everyone → tutti hanno notato che mi evita his avoidance of his duty → la sua mancanza al dovere see also tax How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| As the story of 'Agnes Grey' was accused of extravagant over-colouring in those very parts that were carefully copied from the life, with a most scrupulous avoidance of all exaggeration, so, in the present work, I find myself censured for depicting CON AMORE, with 'a morbid love of the coarse, if not of the brutal,' those scenes which, I will venture to say, have not been more painful for the most fastidious of my critics to read than they were for me to describe. It is astonishing how much the Art -- or I may almost call it instinct -- of Sight Recognition is developed by the habitual practice of it and by the avoidance of the custom of "Feeling". "I beg your pardon," offered Edna, in some embarrassment, for she should have remembered that Mademoiselle Reisz's avoidance of the water had furnished a theme for much pleasantry. |
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