Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shun; avoid; escape.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To shun; to avoid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
shun ; toavoid .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Empires wax and wane like the moon; they ebb and flow like the tides; and are governed by natural law as these are; and as little depend, ultimately, upon battle, murder, and sudden death; which are but effects that wisdom would evitate; we are wrong in taking them for causes.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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These are not to be dodged by railways, turbines, aeroplanes; you cannot evitate their action by inventing printing-presses; -- which, I suppose, have been invented and forgotten dozens of times 'since created man.'
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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România, printre destinaţiile turistice cele mai evitate de britanici
ZF 2010
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România, printre destinaţiile turistice cele mai evitate de britanici
ZF 2010
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România, printre destinaţiile turistice cele mai evitate de britanici
ZF 2010
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România, printre destinaţiile turistice cele mai evitate de britanici
ZF 2010
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Since therein fhe doth evitate and fhun A thouf&nd irreligious curfed hours*
Works 1795
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La lista dei credits completa, ve l’ho ricopiata lettera dopo lettera, così evitate di cecarvi sopra a questa qui.
No Fat Clips!!! : Without Missing a Beat, she asks, "Waffles for Breakfast?" 2007
qms commented on the word evitate
A guilty pol should never wait
But hasten to tergiversate.
To let voters wonder
Is always a blunder.
Proleptically he must evitate.
October 12, 2015