Avoidance
Alternative forms
- avoidaunce obsolete
Origin
From Middle English
Full definition of avoidance
Noun
avoidance
(usually uncountable; plural avoidances)- The act of annulling; annulment.
- 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 dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
- The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
- 1907, Robert Chambers, The Younger Set Chapter 8, 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.
- Any thing that is to be avoided
- The courts by which anything is carried off.