"ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another."
— Absence

January 1, 1970

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Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).