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Avoidance vs Circumvention - What's the difference?

avoidance | circumvention |

As nouns the difference between avoidance and circumvention

is that avoidance is the act of annulling; annulment while circumvention is the act of evading by going around (bypassing).

avoidance

English

Alternative forms

* avoidaunce (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The act of annulling; annulment.
  • 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.
  • A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
  • The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
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  • *: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.
  • Any thing that is to be avoided
  • The courts by which anything is carried off.

    • circumvention

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of evading by going around (bypassing).
  • The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
    • A school in which he learns sly circumvention . --.