Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of eschewing; eschewment.
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- noun The act of
eschewing
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Examples
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Modernism is, in large part, a systematic eschewal of whatever makes art most broadly and immediately appealing or even accessible, and an embrace of features that remove it further into the exclusive province of those who have been not so much educated as initiated.
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This swift pace and the resulting eschewal of sentimentality are part of the pleasure of Skeletons at the Feast, but I wish we could have paused a little longer at one or two of these moments ....
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Modernism is, in large part, a systematic eschewal of whatever makes art most broadly and immediately appealing or even accessible, and an embrace of features that remove it further into the exclusive province of those who have been not so much educated as initiated.
Archive 2010-01-10 2010
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Now that the denomination he criticized is in the news, perhaps Bobby could elaborate on his view about the Episcopalian Church's eschewal of "inconvenient morality".
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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However, Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 415, allowed evidence 'of similar acts of sexual harassment and eschewal in civil cases concerning sexual assault or child molestation.'
Balkinization 2007
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Finally, Wurdalak is an odd vampire film, beginning with its eschewal of the very term "vampire" in favor of one less familiar.
Archive 2009-11-29 2009
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This is directly related to Wittgenstein's eschewal of the logical form or of any a-priori generalization that can be discovered or made in philosophy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein Biletzki, Anat 2009
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Domestic propaganda thus makes very clear that nothing is to be expected from ongoing negotiations with the Americans, whose eschewal of a military solution to the nuclear standoff is attributed not to a desire for peace but to cowardice.
How Pyongyang Plays the West B. R. Myers 2008
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Lucky: "Jones filed a sexual harassment and eschewal suit against Clinton on May 6, 1994, two days prior to the 3-year statute of limitations."
"There is an intensity and intimacy to Giuliani that can be unsettling." Ann Althouse 2007
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From Wikipedia: "Jones filed a sexual harassment and eschewal suit against Clinton on May 6, 1994, two days prior to the 3-year statute of limitations."
"There is an intensity and intimacy to Giuliani that can be unsettling." Ann Althouse 2007
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