Talk:absent oneself from

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absent oneself from

Doesn't look like a phrasal verb to me. --SimonP45 (talk) 11:10, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Move to absent oneself, making appropriate adjustments to definition. [See below: 13:39, 6 February 2016] DCDuring TALK 14:19, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

• Move to absent oneself per DCDuring. bd2412 T 15:56, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
• I would say delete, because this is just sense 1 of absent#Verb. Compare how we don't have an entry for "remove oneself", "withdraw oneself (from consideration, etc)", etc. - -sche (discuss) 16:48, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

  Perhaps, but we would need to modernize at least the reflexive sense at absent#Verb and redirect searchers to that definition. DCDuring TALK 16:56, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

• Redirect to [[absent#Verb]] (or else delete).​—msh210℠ (talk) 20:41, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
• Abstain. The "from" seems extraneous in the lemma, and there is only one OneLook dictionary having "absent oneself" per “absent oneself”, in OneLook Dictionary Search., namely this one[1]. I don't object to deletion and I don't object to moving to absent oneself if people deem such an entry worthwhile, although to me, on the face of it, absent oneself seems unnecessary. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:03, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

  At absent#Verb I have corrected the transitive definition (archaic?) and added a reflexive one (with usex), so the verb PoS section doesn't read like that from a 200-year-old dictionary. Feel free to revise or revert. Delete. DCDuring TALK 13:39, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Redirected. - -sche (discuss) 05:20, 22 February 2016 (UTC)