Sentence:  My trustees are going to lend Earl Blessington sixty thousand pounds (at six per cent.) on a Dublin mortgage. Only think of my becoming an Irish <WSD>absentee</WSD>! 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated. (First attested in the early 17th century.)<ref name=SOED/>