eschewal
- noun
- /ɪsˈtʃuːəl/
- Formal
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evitación
- His eschewal of unhealthy foods has led to significant weight loss.
Examples
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The key point is that the British polity's earlier eschewal.
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With this understanding of "all things European," Silko can be seen as advocating a change in people's perspective and behavior toward the land and each other rather than a complete eschewal of all knowledge and peoples associated with European culture.
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In terms of the China, the complete eschewal of religious imagery doubtless helped obviate unwanted interference by papal authorities.
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Can new scholarship and an eschewal of representational ideologies combine to render new interpretations of the Great Famine possible?
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The third characteristic expression of liberation theology's new and distinctive approach to the socioethical evaluation of Latin American problems was its eschewal of tercerismo or Third Way strategies.
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Low-riding style came to signify a contrary and economically pragmatic eschewal of the high-powered Anglo hot rodder's game.
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More specifically, the council's eschewal of the explicit language and terminology of the neo-Scholastic theological notes need not imply a negative judgment on the appropriateness of that method in the interpretation of doctrinal statements, including its own.
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But much more is needed quickly: further increases in imports of both manufactured (including high-technology) products and agricultural goods, a conspicuous expansion in the presence of foreign investors, eschewal of infant industry protection and industrial policies, and additional reductions in its trade surpluses with the rest of the world, especially with the United States.
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In others, an attachment to realism and indigenous literary practices is interpreted as a deliberate eschewal of the Western discourse of unspeakability, recourse to which is seen as politically debilitating.
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Smethurst argues that the "misogyny, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and eschewal of practical politics for the pathologically symbolic" found within the BAM are not reasons to dismiss the movement, nor were they unusual for the era (4).
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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6.4
Choosing not to do things like drinking alcohol or having sex
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3.7
Keeping away from something or stopping it from happening
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5.8
Choosing to avoid someone or to stop something from happening
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5.0
A quick movement to avoid someone or something, for example a ball
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7.2
Not talking to or seeing someone on purpose to show you are unhappy with them
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7.2
Choosing not to take part in something, often giving up pleasures like alcohol
Antonyms
How Avoidant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Eschewal comes from the verb eschew, which comes from an old French word meaning 'to turn away' or 'to avoid', like the everyday English word shun. So eschewal is the act of deliberately avoiding something.