Tom was there, but he seemedabsent and withdrawn. Normally he is quite present [= engaged] during a meeting.
1746-1747, Chesterfield,Letters to his Son:
What is commonly called anabsent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man.
1902, John Buchan,The Outgoing of the Tide:
For days Ailie had anabsent eye and a sad face, and it so fell out that in all that time young Heriotside, who had scarce missed a day, was laid up with a broken arm and never came near her.
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In the absence of;without; except.[First attested in the mid 20th century.][2]
Absent taxes modern governments cannot function.
1919, “State vs. Britt, Supreme Court of Missouri, Division 2”, inThe Southwestern Reporter, page427:
If the accused refuse upon demand to pay money or deliver property (absent any excuse or excusing circumstance) which came into his hands as a bailee, such refusal might well constitute some evidence of conversion, with the requisite fraudulent intent required by the statute.
2011, David Elstein,London Review of Books, volume33, number15:
the Princess Caroline case[…] established that –absent a measurable ‘public interest’ in publication – she was safe from being photographed while out shopping.
2013, Stephen K. Wegren, “Agriculture”, in Stephen K. Wegren, editor,Return to Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, 5th edition, Lanham, MD:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,→ISBN,page223:
About 25 percent of Russia’s large farms continue to be unprofitable, and that number would be considerably higherabsent government subsidies and assistance programs.
2019 September 5, Ian Bogost, “I tried to limit my screen time (It didn't go well)”, inThe Atlantic[1]:
And the distraction-management software Freedom offers a mode that won’t unlock affected appsabsent a telephone-support call.
2020,Anu Bradford, “8. Is the Brussels Effect Beneficial?”, inThe Brussels Effect. How the European Union Rules the World, Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page258:
California cannot promulgate regulations that are inconsistent with US federal lawsabsent an explicit waiver from the federal government.
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal whoabsented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
1986 December 7, Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves, “Just the Facts, Miss Thing”, inGay Community News, volume14, number21, page 1:
Some people expect that the news should be written "professionally," that it should conform to certain "journalistic standards," and that it should not "editorialize." And this is tantamount to saying it should be written objectively, that we shouldabsent ourselves when writing copy.
(transitive,archaic) To keep (someone) away.[First attested around 1350 to 1470.][2]
1667,John Milton, “Book IX”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
Go; for thy stay, not free,absents thee more;
(intransitive,obsolete) Stay away; withdraw.[Attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the late 18th century.][2]
The iron rule of the plantation, always passionately and violently enforced in that neighborhood, makes flogging the penalty of failing to be in the field before sunrise in the morning, unless special permission be given to theabsenting slave.
2004, Paul Willemen, “Reflections on Eisenstein and Digital Imagery: Of Mice and Men”, inThe Montage Principle, page188:
When we realize that the digitalisation of the image involves - by reducing and evenabsenting - the role of 'the physical', the 'sensuous' (by reducing and eventuallyabsenting the indexical aspects of the image)[…]
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^Philip Babcock Gove (editor),Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909],→ISBN), page 6
Marek Kunicki-Goldfinger (29.09.2014), “ABSENT”, inElektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
