[f. ABSCOND + -ING2.] Concealing itself, or hiding; retiring, secretive; runaway.
1692. Brit. Victrix, 3. In proud Procession how they go, To meet the Lurking and Absconding Foe.
1709. J. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj. (ed. 6), II. 127. When they see … a remote and absconding kind of Countenance, they conclude it Cain’s Mark.
1879. W. H. Dixon, Royal Windsor, II. iii. 29. No person was allowed to shelter and employ absconding men.
