Nonencounter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Failure to encounter something or somebody.

    "Here, Cornish difference, particularly in the far west, is represented as originating in the insular, primitive and unworldly, and paradoxically reinforced through nonencounters with Islam."

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"Here, Cornish difference, particularly in the far west, is represented as originating in the insular, primitive and unworldly, and paradoxically reinforced through nonencounters with Islam."

Etymology

From non- + encounter.

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