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At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(obsolete) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant, specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
a.1626, Francis Bacon, “XLV. Of Building”, in The essays, or councils, civil and moralwith a table of the colours of good and evil, and a discourse of The wisdom of the ancients, published 1696, page 122:
In the Upper Gallery too I wish that there may be, if the Place will yield it, some Fountains running in divers Places from the Wall, with some fine Avoidances.