Crossword-Solution: ABSENTS
We have 9 clues for the answer “ABSENTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Excuses (oneself) | 1 answer |
| Keeps (oneself) away | 1 answer |
| Removes (oneself) | 1 answer |
| Stays away | 1 answer |
| Stays away, with "oneself" | 1 answer |
| Withdraws (oneself) | 1 answer |
| __ oneself (keeps away) | 1 answer |
| __ oneself (stays away) | 1 answer |
| Keeps away | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
CAERNO
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ABSENTS (5)
Wouldst thou approve thy constancie, approve First thy obedience; th’ other who can know, Not seeing thee attempted, who attest? But if thou think, trial unsought may finde Us both securer then thus warnd thou seemst, Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more; Go in thy native innocence, relie On what thou hast of vertue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.
Where art thou _Adam_, wont with joy to meet My coming seen far off? I miss thee here, Not pleas’d, thus entertaind with solitude, Where obvious dutie erewhile appear’d unsaught: Or come I less conspicuous, or what change Absents thee, or what chance detains? Come forth.
One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee.
Either he absents himself entirely from all fellowship, and lives a recluse in a garret, with carpet slippers and a leaden inkpot; or he comes among people swiftly and bitterly, in a contraction of his whole nervous system, to discharge some temper before he returns to work.
The impressions made on the severed ends of the nerve are due often to changes in the stump during healing, and consequently cease when it has healed, so that finally, in a very healthy stump, no such impressions arise; the brain ceases to correspond with the lost leg, and, as les absents ont toujours tort, it is no longer remembered or recognized.
Quotes with ABSENTS (1)
Gossip reduces the other to he/she, and this reduction is intolerable to me. For me the other is neither he nor she; the other has only a name of his own, or her own name. The third-person pronoun is a wicked pronoun: it is the pronoun of the non-person, it absents, it annuls. When I realize that common discourse takes possession of my other and restores that other to me in the bloodless form of a universal substitute, applied to all the things which are not here, it is as if…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1972–2023).