Shunning

shunning
    n 1: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from
         happening [syn: {avoidance}, {turning away}, {shunning},
         {dodging}]
    

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},
   {Shunt}.]
   To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to
   escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.
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         I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not
         shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
                                                  --Acts xx.
                                                  26,27.
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         Scarcity and want shall shun you.        --Shak.
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   Syn: See {Avoid}.
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32 Moby Thesaurus words for "shunning":
      avoidance, avoiding reaction, circumvention, defense mechanism,
      dodge, duck, elusion, elusiveness, equivocation, escape, eschewal,
      evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, forbearance, forestalling,
      forestallment, getting around, jink, neutrality, nonintervention,
      noninvolvement, prevention, refraining, runaround, shunting off,
      shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, the runaround, zigzag