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Whenever you read the minutes of a meeting, whether it's a board-meeting, an AGM or an orgy, you will find near the top the cumbersome phrase "apologies for absence", or in some particularly verbose cases "apologies for non-attendance". This can be done away with. You see, there is a single (and singularly useful) word for that: essoinment.
Essoinment is the act of essoining, and essoining is (OED):
To offer an excuse for the non-appearance of (a person) in court; to excuse for absence.
So all that the minutes of the meeting really need is
Essoinments followed by a list of names.
Too many essoinments.
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