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Absence of ambiguity; clearness; perspicuity.

The absence of ambition. [R.] F. W. Newman.

Absence or want of benevolence; ill will.

The absence or want of circumcision.

Want of concern; absence of anxiety; freedom from solicitude; indifference. A listless unconcern, Cold, and averting from our neighbor's good. Thomson.

Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.

Absence of courtliness; rudeness; rusticity. Addison.

Absence or want of devotion.

Absence of expectation; want of foresight. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief. [R.] Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson.

Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance. Bp. Hall.

Absence of likelihood.

Absence or lack of manhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Absence or lack of peace. [Obs.] Testament of Love.

hout principles; especially, being without right moral principles; also, characterized by absence of principle. -- Un*prin"ci*pled*ness, n.

Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication. T. Warton.

Absence or lack of reverence; irreverence. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The quality or state of being in peril; absence of safety; insecurity. Bacon.

Absence or lack of sanctification. Shak.

Absence of simplicity; artfulness. C. Kingsley.