Prepositional phrase
in absentia
- (law) While not present; while absent
The defendant was convicted in absentia after fleeing during the trial.
2004 October 28, Leslie Feinberg, “Denazification in socialist Germany opened door to gay rights”, in Workers World:The first chancellor of West Germany, w:Conrad Adenauer […] continued to keep w:Hans Globke as his secretary of the chancellery despite protests. […] Even after an East German court indicted Globke in absentia in 1950, Adenauer would not budge.
- (transferred sense, possibly proscribed) Absent in general; not present.
Since then, the ex-minister has been in absentia, likely relaxing on his private yacht.
2016, Yuu Kamiya, translated by Daniel Komen, No Game No Life, volume 4:At Sora’s involuntary acknowledgment of their crew currently in absentia, Shiro nodded.