The phrase "absent yourself" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in formal contexts to instruct someone to leave or to not be present in a particular situation or event.
Example: "Please absent yourself from the meeting if you are feeling unwell."
Alternatives: "excuse yourself" or "remove yourself".
You stop returning calls, texts, emails and basically unilaterally absent yourself from the relationship.
Then absent yourself for a number of months, usually in rehab or with your family.
It represents, he said, "the desire to absent yourself from the flotsam and jetsam of existence".
How can you – if your task, if your gift, is narrative – absent yourself from the great narrative of the world?
The trick for any writer is to absent yourself from the finished work; the plot should feel propelled by the characters rather than the writer.
Allow hate speech to thrive, absent yourself from any kind of moral leadership, and you must surely expect to reap the whirlwind.
Information on absenting yourself from study, either temporarily or permanently, and on returning after interruption.
"Your conduct in absenting yourself from justice for so long was as cowardly as it was selfish". Speaking outside court, Ms Brown's father Graham said the family felt "a sense of relief".
Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself.' Even the best literary descriptions do not help the best scientific minds, nor can they explain the ideal balance in treatment between the several types of psychotherapy and the many types of chemical medications.
It's yielding to the temptation that flows from finding yourself -- absent Brezhnev -- as the sole superpower after the end of the cold war.
"There's nothing to be ashamed of — we are all losers," said Pooya Kazerouni, a Canadian entrepreneur who has thought a great deal about how to avert this sort of absent-minded, kick-yourself-later experience.
