abscondee

noun 2

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noun

1

A person who has absconded.

An investigator begins an intensive search for the abscondee.

A Plot in Private Life, a Collins novella, sets Mr Dark, a lawyer's clerk, on the train of an abscondee.

2

A person who is abandoned by an absconder.

'[…] After Norm absconded, I found that a little disconcerting. As if the sonofabitch was still there, staring at me, checking up on me. Are you an absconder, Tom?' 'No, I think I'm technically an abscondee.' 'Ah, well, there we are. We have something in common. Here's to all abscondees.

The self-pity of the absconder against the bitter clarity of the left-behind, the abscondee.

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