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inattendance en · NOUN

Etymology

From in- + attendance.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Lack or neglect of attendance.
    • I offered that this certainly shed some light on his noticeable absence from the building and his inattendance to our affairs, particularly the faint yet menacing odor of natural gas emanating from the stub of rusting pipe... 2006, Tracy Letts, Man from Nebraska: A Play, page 59:
    • Mary Dedalus, Stephen's mother, died 26 June 1903; Bloom belatedly apologizes for his inattendance to her burial due to the "vigil of the anniversary of the decease of Rudolph Bloom (born Virag)..." 1972, Gene Arnold Rister, The Odyssean Backgrounds of Ulysses: Joyce's Sources and His Development of the Homeric Motif, Volume 2, page 310: