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Definition of Shunning
1. Noun. Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening.
Generic synonyms: Rejection
Specialized synonyms: Aversion, Averting, Escape, Near Thing
Derivative terms: Avoid, Dodge, Shun
Definition of Shunning
1. Verb. (present participle of shun) ¹
2. Noun. The act by which something is shunned; avoidance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shunning
1. shun [v] - See also: shun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shunning
Literary usage of Shunning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"He spoke, and back Patroclus drew some space, 860 shunning the wrath of Him who
smites from far. Hector the while had rein'd his hooved steeds Under the ..."
2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"... In vain wld Prudence t Detested, shunn'd, by saunt an' sinner, 3H To a Louse.
shunning. 1 shunning soft Pity's rising sway, . . A Winter Night, c. ..."
3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... to keep clear of danger by shunning the entanglements of a foreign alliance,
we now find by the event to have been both impolitic and weak. ..."
4. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1822)
"Thus my Fanny, unaspiring, shunning life's meridian ray, From its rocks and hills
retiring, Holds her modest peaceful way. But the Sun through bush and ..."
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