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present participle and gerund of avoid examples
plural avoidings
Avoidance. quotations examples
Two classes of people she had chosen to avoid, having been driven to such avoidings by her aunt's preferences; marquises and such-like, whether wicked or otherwise, she had eschewed, and had eschewed likewise all Low Church tendencies.
1865, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?, page 9