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Definition of Abscondment
1. Noun. The act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest).
Generic synonyms: Abandonment, Defection, Desertion
Derivative terms: Abscond, Decamp
Definition of Abscondment
1. Noun. An act of absconding or escaping ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abscondment
Literary usage of Abscondment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1850)
"Contents of (¡if ihT.'/nit Number. ART. I. SALUTATORY. II. SOLEMN TRUTH. Ш.
THE 'CHRONICLE' MAN. IV. abscondment OF OUR WIFE. ..."
2. A Manual of Equity Jurisprudence: For Practitioners and Students, Founded on by Josiah William Smith, Edward Chase Ingersoll (1878)
"... V. OF PROTECTION FROM ANOTHER'S abscondment BY THE WRIT OF NE EXEAT REGNO.(a)
THE writ ne exeat regno is a prerogative writ which is issued to prevent a ..."
3. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1917)
"... of fund from which contract is payable constitute equitable assignment, which
is not invalidated by contractor's subsequent abscondment; Laclede Bank v. ..."
4. The Legal Observer, and Solicitors' Journal (1854)
"... of peace or bills to establish wills, and by injunctions ; from loss or injury,
in other cases, by in- •unction ; from another's abscondment, by 3. ..."
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