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Absentee

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.

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Defaulter 76% connected

One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.

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Exile 76% connected

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's…

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Expatriate 76% connected

To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

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Truant 76% connected

One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.

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Traveler 76% connected

One who travels; one who has traveled much.

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Traveller 76% connected

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Absent 74% connected

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.

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Absent 74% connected

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.

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Absenteeism noun · 78% connection

The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is sit…

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Absenter noun · 78% connection

One who absents one's self.

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Avulsion noun · 78% connection

The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change…

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Bogtrotter noun · 78% connection

One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.

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Candidate noun · 78% connection

One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or ho…

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Commune noun · 78% connection

A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government…

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Conference noun · 78% connection

A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.

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Defection noun · 78% connection

Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; fail…

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Discharge verb · 78% connection

To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the…

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District noun · 78% connection

A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as,…

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Estovers n. pl. · 78% connection

Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., o…

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Ethics noun · 78% connection

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting d…

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Frontier noun · 78% connection

That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part…

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Heritor noun · 78% connection

A proprietor or landholder in a parish.

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Hermit noun · 78% connection

A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.

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Heteroscian noun · 78% connection

One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because a…

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Himself pron. · 78% connection

An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; us…

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Home noun · 78% connection

One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one'…

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