evite
Verb
To avoid.
Usage- Early
- Modern
- Scotland
- Archaic
- Transitive
- Examples
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The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: […]
More examples (1)
... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.
She stated she must see me, and, if I refused her satisfaction there, she would compel it where I should not evite her.
More examples (2)
"Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he.
Goodey has criticised these experiments of Rostrup and is of the opinion that she did not quite evite experimental errors.
Word forms
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