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Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To avoid. Early, Modern, Scotland, archaic, transitive

   "The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: […]"

Example

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"The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: […]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French eviter, from Latin ēvītō (“to avoid”).

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