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English
Noun
absconsion (countable and uncountable, plural absconsions)
- (rare) The act of absconding.
1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.
References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absconsion”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.