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Avoidance vs Thwarting - What's the difference?

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Avoidance is a related term of thwarting.


As nouns the difference between avoidance and thwarting

is that avoidance is the act of annulling; annulment while thwarting is an instance of blocking or obstructing.

As a verb thwarting is

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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.
  • *
  • *: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.

    • thwarting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of blocking or obstructing.
  • * (George Eliot)
    • the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.