nonabsence

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noun

Failure to be absent, i.e. presence.

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Meanings

nounnonabsence (uncountable)
  1. uncountableFailure to be absent, i.e. presence.

    It was usual that marriage contracts, particularly in larger towns, include conditions safeguarding the wife's interests. These included: the husband's nonabsence from the marital home for a long or specific period of time;...

    1996, Amira El Azhary Sonbol, Women, the family, and divorce laws in Islamic history, page 103

Origin

From non- + absence.

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Chicago

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