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(law) While not present; while absent quotations examples
The first chancellor of West Germany, Conrad Adenauer […] continued to keep Hans Globke as his secretary of the chancellery despite protests. […] Even after an East German court indicted Globke in absentia in 1950, Adenauer would not budge.
2004 October 28, Leslie Feinberg, “Denazification in socialist Germany opened door to gay rights”, in Workers World
(transferred sense, possibly proscribed) Absent in general; not present. quotations examples
At Sora’s involuntary acknowledgment of their crew currently in absentia, Shiro nodded.
2016, Yuu Kamiya, translated by Daniel Komen, No Game No Life, volume 4