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in absentia

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in ab·sen·tia  (n b-snsh, -sh-)
adv. Abbr. i.a.
While or although not present; in absence: was tried and convicted in absentia.

[Latin in absenti : in, in + absenti, ablative of absentia, absence.]

in absentia
Adverb
in the absence of (someone indicated) [Latin]
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Adv.1.in absentia - while absent; although absent; "he was sentenced in absentia"


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Celil fled China in the 1990s, having been sentenced to death in absentia for separatist political activities.
Roman Polanski waited decades after fleeing a warrant for pedophilia before he finally snagged, in absentia, his Best Director statue for ``The Pianist.
Belgium's Supreme Court held that the country's 1993 Anti-Atrocity legislation allowed for prosecution in absentia, thereby finding the plaintiffs' bases for appeal of a lower court decision to be well-founded, and allowed the case to proceed.
 
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