Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Disappearance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Act of disappearing; disappearance.

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  • noun obsolete The act of disappearing; disappearance.

Etymologies

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Compare French disparition.

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Examples

  • So, if you are the kind of person who is tickled by the nod to Perec in the title Death: A User's Manual (used to refer, en passant, to one of Mount's novels) – and I confess that I am, particularly as Adair won the Scott Moncrieff prize for his incredible translation of Perec's E-less novel, La disparition – then you will enjoy And Then There Was No One hugely.

    And Then There Was No One by Gilbert Adair 2010

  • Précision touristique supplémentaire: Ax demeure sous la coupe d'un des derniers représentants d'une race en voie disparition: l'ultra-socialiste radical Bonrepaux.

    Ax-les-Thermes Etienne 2008

  • Disons que je regrette dans la deuxieme la disparition du twist Tongue (tongue twist?) c'etait franchement plus drole que leurs acrobaties a deux balles!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • As done by Georges Perec in his 300 page novel La disparition.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Bob Lock 2008

  • As done by Georges Perec in his 300 page novel La disparition.

    Science Fiction Convention Wales Bob Lock 2008

  • Le réchauffement climatique provoque la fonte des glaces artiques et une possible disparition du Gulf Stream, aujourd'hui réponsable de notre climat tempéré.

    Warm Winter and Oil Consumption - The Austrian Economists 2007

  • Pour moi, ce n'est pas un phénomène de dissolution/disparition, mais plutôt de contamination.

    Tomorrow Will LIFT You Up! — Climb to the Stars 2007

  • Pour ma part, étant très peu physionomiste, je regretterais la disparition des badges.

    Badges at Conferences — Climb to the Stars 2007

  • Countenance whose disparition afflictedly fond Fuinn feels.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Je laisse un message exprimant mon étonnement face à la disparition systématique de mes “contributions” au site.

    2006 December — Climb to the Stars 2006

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