different between avoidance vs thwarting

English

Alternative forms

• avoidaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English avoidaunce, probably from Anglo-Norman. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v??d?ns/

Noun

avoidance (usually uncountable, plural avoidances)

1. The act of annulling; annulment.
2. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; – specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
3. A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
4. The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.

   • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

5. Any thing that is to be avoided
6. The courts by which anything is carried off.

Coordinate terms

• minced oath

Translations

Anagrams

• vadocaine

English

Verb

thwarting

1. present participle of thwart

Noun

thwarting (plural thwartings)

1. An instance of blocking or obstructing.

   • […] the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.