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Abscondence

Abscondence \Ab*scond"ence\, n. Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. [R.]
--Phillips.

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abscondence

n. (context rare English) The act of absconding, or illicitly escape; hiding of a fugitive. (First attested in the late 19th century.)(R:SOED5: page=8)

Usage examples of "abscondence".

There was no way of telling if these Oscars were the same pair who had chased him in his subjective yesterday—their smoothly cast features were al­most identical—but the point was that this was the ninth of November, and therefore his desertion from the Legion, his abscondence from the Blue Toad, and the embarrassing episode at the movie house all lay a month in the future.