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; to avoid.

Etymologies

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Latin evitatus, past participle of evitare to shun; e out + vitare to shun.

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  • 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