in absentia

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin in absentia (in absence).

Prepositional phrase

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in absentia

  1. (law) While not present; while absent
    The defendant was convicted in absentia after fleeing during the trial.
    • 2004 October 28, Leslie Feinberg, “Denazification in socialist Germany opened door to gay rights”, in Workers World[1]:
      The first chancellor of West Germany, w:Conrad Adenauer [] continued to keep w:Hans Globke as his secretary of the chancellery despite protests. [] Even after an East German court indicted Globke in absentia in 1950, Adenauer would not budge.
  2. (transferred sense, possibly proscribed) Absent in general; not present.
    Since then, the ex-minister has been in absentia, likely relaxing on his private yacht.
    • 2016, Yuu Kamiya, translated by Daniel Komen, No Game No Life, volume 4:
      At Sora’s involuntary acknowledgment of their crew currently in absentia, Shiro nodded.

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