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nonencounter en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + encounter.

Meanings

1. Failure to encounter something or somebody.
   • Now came a series of nonencounters with his supposed boss. Nuruddin kept arranging meetings; Saladin kept making excuses not to be there: his father was sick, he himself was feeling under the weather—it was always something. 2010, Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes:
   • Here, Cornish difference, particularly in the far west, is represented as originating in the insular, primitive and unworldly, and paradoxically reinforced through nonencounters with Islam. 2013, Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower, Garry Tregidga, Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity, page 159:

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