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Absent

adjective

Not being in a specified place.

Nonexistent. Synonyms: lacking, missing, wanting. "Her appetite was lacking"

Lost in thought; showing preoccupation. Synonyms: absentminded, abstracted, scatty. "An absentminded professor" , "The scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"

verb

(past & past part. absented; pres. part. absenting)

Go away or leave. Synonym: remove.

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"Absent" Quotes from Famous Books

... to heart ... was deeply aggrieved I afterward learned ... the dear boy ... he did 'kill Jarl' finally ... and absent-mindedly brought him to life again, later on ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... time fixed, upon due proof of the matter in question being produced, the said College shall proceed to pass judgment thereupon against the person complained of, and where it is necessary to carry their judgment into execution against an absent person, shall forthwith when desired by the complainant, at his expense, send an express to the proper Governors or Waywodes, and shall order them to cause the judgment to be executed without loss of time, and thus shall oblige the person condemned, to pay the sums of money ...

— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII • Various

... Sunday, Mr. Grant was absent from his usual place in the church. It would do him no good to sit under the ministry of ...

— Lessons in Life, For All Who Will Read Them • T. S. Arthur

... room') that her song was not rapturously encored. The evening's entertainment was brought to a close in the orthodox manner by the drinking of healths and the expression of good wishes for all friends, absent ...

— The Last Voyage - to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' • Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey

... Prince, Otto Johann Friedrich, a young man of imperfect education, questionable valour, and no scintilla of capacity, has fallen into entire public contempt. It was with difficulty that I obtained an interview, for he is frequently absent from a court where his presence is unheeded, and where his only role is to be a cloak for the amours of his wife. At last, however, on the third occasion when I visited the palace, I found this sovereign in the ...

— Prince Otto • Robert Louis Stevenson

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