Definition of Avoidances

1. avoidance [n] - See also: avoidance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avoidances

avocets
avodire
avodires
avogadrite
avoid
avoid like the plague
avoidability
avoidable
avoidableness
avoidably
avoidance
avoidance-avoidance conflict
avoidance conditioning
avoidance learning
avoidance training
avoidances (current term)
avoidant
avoidant disorder of adolescence
avoidant disorder of childhood
avoidant personality
avoidantly
avoidaunce
avoided
avoided costs
avoider
avoiders
avoidest
avoideth
avoiding
avoidless

Literary usage of Avoidances

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Advowsons by John Mirehouse (1824)
"SECTION V. On Grants of avoidances. As the right of patronage in an advowson may Right of pa- pass by the grant of the patron, so the right of ..."

2. Social Origins by Andrew Lang, James Jasper Atkinson (1903)
"Elder brother and younger brother's wife avoidances.—Note on Hostile Capture. IF we can admit the argument as to the sequence of incidents which thus led to ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Common by John Comyns, Samuel Rose, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Great Britain High Court of Delegates (1792)
"5. extends to avoidances before conviction, or only to avoidances before ... Secondly, If it extends to avoidances after conviction in • this cafe, ..."

4. Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk by Ward Hunt Goodenough (2002)
"All medicines associated with sorcery had such avoidances. ... Most of these avoidances had to do with food, but also included prohibitions against "sexual ..."

5. Anthropological Essays Presented to Edward Burnett Tylor in Honour of His by Barbara W. Freire- Marreco (1907)
"It does not appear probable that all avoidances were instituted for the same reason, and Mr. Tylor found no single reason that would account for all ..."

6. The Jurist, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation by William S. Hein & Company (1828)
"... it might not perhaps be amiss if a limitation were established with respect to the number of avoidances, or rather, if a limitation were compounded of ..."

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