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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
evite .
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Examples
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The Democratic side is probably going to go all the way to March, since, as Stephen Colbert put it, Hillary might find herself evited.
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We evited friends to set up a “boutique” and sell their own stuff—or just browse and breakfast.
The Swell Dressed Party Cynthia Rowley 2005
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We evited friends to set up a “boutique” and sell their own stuff—or just browse and breakfast.
The Swell Dressed Party Cynthia Rowley 2005
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From my capin I'm evited and likewise compelled to go
Castle Garden 1997
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Those who knew the story gave him the cold shoulder; those who knew it not, seeing one brother disappear, and the other succeed in the estate, raised a cry of murder; so that upon all sides he found himself evited.
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Those who knew the story gave him the cold shoulder; those who knew it not, seeing one brother disappear, and the other succeed in the estate, raised a cry of murder; so that upon all sides he found himself evited.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Ah, had I kept my frail resolution of dismissing him at that moment, what a world of shame and misery had been evited!
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1802
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e'en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e’en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
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