Meaning of nonencounter | Babel Free

Definitions

Failure to encounter something or somebody.

Examples

“Here, Cornish difference, particularly in the far west, is represented as originating in the insular, primitive and unworldly, and paradoxically reinforced through nonencounters with Islam.”

“Now came a series of nonencounters with his supposed boss. Nuruddin kept arranging meetings; Saladin kept making excuses not to be there: his father was sick, he himself was feeling under the weather—it was always something.”

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