Avoidance

1. n. The courts by which anything is carried off.
2. n. The act of annulling; annulment.
3. n. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; — specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
4. n. A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
5. n. The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.