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nonabsence en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + absence.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Failure to be absent, i.e. presence.
    • It was usual that marriage contracts, particularly in larger towns, include conditions safeguarding the wife's interests. These included: the husband's nonabsence from the marital home for a long or specific period of time;... 1996, Amira El Azhary Sonbol, Women, the family, and divorce laws in Islamic history, page 103: