mere absence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmereandabsence
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mere
adjective[before noun]
uk/mɪər/us/mɪr/
used to emphasize that something is not large ...
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absence
noun
uk/ˈæb.səns/us/ˈæb.səns/
the fact of not being where you are usually expected ...
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(Definition ofmereandabsencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmere absence
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Language variation is often for reasons that have little to do with themereabsenceof systems of formal logic.
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The ' liberal ' explanations are virtually irrelevant in accounting for themereabsenceof international wars.
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Second, the problem is to decide whether ' 'freedom of contract,' ' like other liberties, can be defined negatively, as amereabsenceof state interference.
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The former have characteristics that make them right-like in a modern sense, while the latter is amereabsenceof restraint.
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But if state law refuses to back the parents up officially, this nonvalidation (themereabsenceof official recognition) causes them no loss.
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The third interpretation gives us the weakest of the three alternatives, resting the case on themereabsenceof doubt.
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It is themereabsenceof any application to become registered as a charity which has resulted in this difficulty.
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Being healthy does not necessarily mean themereabsenceof sickness, which is, all too often, the measure of health in our society.
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They regarded health as something quite different from themereabsenceof disease.
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We cannot be prepared to rest on themereabsenceof war.
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Themereabsenceof immunity does not meet the need.
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Themereabsenceof a passport does not remove one's right to leave the country.
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Themereabsenceof duty or other taxes on goods being sold does not assure that they are bargains.
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Tax exemption generally refers to a statutory exception to a general rule rather than themereabsence of taxation in particular circumstances (i.e., an exclusion).
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On the other hand,mereabsencefrom a hearing does not necessarily lead to undue prejudice.
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In manga, the ellipsis (i.e. three dots) is also used to express silence in a much more significant way than themereabsenceof bubbles.
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