Absenter
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /æbˈsɛn.tɚ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Absenter is a noun meaning One who stays away; one who absents herself or himself.
Meaning
One who stays away; one who absents herself or himself.
More Meanings
- (rare) comparative form of absent: more absent
Example Sentences
[…] if many of them that vse the meanes of saluation, shall not bee saued, where shall wilfull Recusants, obstinate absenters, and carelesse contemners of the Word, appeare?
1966, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Pentland Rising: A Page of History, Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, Chapter 1, p. 4, It was little to be wondered at, from this account that the country-folk refused to go to the parish church, and chose rather to listen to outed ministers in the fields. But this was not to be allowed, and their persecutors at last fell on the method of calling a roll of the parishioners’ names every Sabbath, and marking a fine of twenty shillings Scots to the name of each absenter.
Word Forms
- absenters
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include absentation, absentee, absent, absenteeist, absentment, absenty.
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