shunning

  • 1Shunning — can be the act of social rejection, or mental rejection. Social rejection is when a person or group deliberately avoids association with, and habitually keeps away from an individual or group. This can be a formal decision by a group, or a less… …

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  • 2shunning —    Shunning is a practice among Mennonites of avoiding those who have been placed under the ban (disfellowshipped). It is a second level of separation and part of a strategy for winning an erring member back into full fellowship. It can be traced …

    Encyclopedia of Protestantism

  • 3shunning — index avoidance (evasion), boycott, disapprobation, disapproval, elusive, reluctant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burto …

    Law dictionary

  • 4Shunning — Shun Shun, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shunned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shunning}.] [OE. shunien, schunien, schonien, AS. scunian, sceonian; cf. D. schuinen to slepe, schuin oblique, sloping, Icel. skunda, skynda, to hasten. Cf. {Schooner}, {Scoundrel},… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 5shunning — Synonyms and related words: avoidance, avoiding reaction, circumvention, defense mechanism, dodge, duck, elusion, elusiveness, equivocation, escape, eschewal, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, getting …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 6shunning — ʃʌn v. avoid, stay away from, abstain from interj. avoid, eschew …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 7shunning — noun deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening • Syn: ↑avoidance, ↑turning away, ↑dodging • Derivationally related forms: ↑dodge (for: ↑dodging), ↑shun, ↑ …

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  • 8Fragments of an Untold Story Born by Shunning the Opportunity — Infobox Album Name = Fragments of an Untold Story Born by Shunning the Opportunity Type = studio Artist = This Day Forward Released = April 3, 2000 Recorded = Genre = Metalcore Hardcore Length = Label = Break Even Records Euology Recordings (Re… …

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  • 9act of shunning — index disdain Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 10finifugal — Shunning the end of something …

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