Absconder
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /æbˈskɑn.dɚ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Absconder is a noun meaning A person who absconds.
Meaning
A person who absconds.
Example Sentences
Steve and I sneaked immediately, like beaten curs, like cowards, like absconders from justice.
What else could it all mean but that Mr. Robert Weymouth was an absconder—was about to fly with the bank’s remaining funds […]
[…] unless such an Act of Grace do reach insolvent Absconders, who to shun the Cruelty of their severe Creditors confine themselves out of their Reach, ’tis humbly conceived, ’twill be but half an Act of Grace.
He smiled at the view over the hedge, at the other front gardens, at the approaching Rover and then its driver, squinting in a rictus of his own against the evening sun, and making Paul feel again like an intruder, or now perhaps an absconder.
Word Forms
- absconders
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include abscondment, absconsion, abandoner, abdicant, abdicator, abducent.
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