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evite
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French eviter, from Latin ēvītō (“to avoid”).
Verb
evite (third-person singular simple present evites, present participle eviting, simple past and past participle evited)
- (Early Modern, now rare, chiefly Scotland, transitive) To avoid.
- 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity:
- The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: […]
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- She stated she must see me, and, if I refused her satisfaction there, she would compel it where I should not evite her.
- 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona:
- "Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he.
- 1941, Ivan Nikolaevich Filipjev, Jacobus Hermanus Schuurmans Stekhoven, A manual of agricultural helminthology:
- Goodey has criticised these experiments of Rostrup and is of the opinion that she did not quite evite experimental errors.
Derived terms
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Asturian
Verb
evite
Galician
Verb
evite
- inflection of evitar:
Haitian Creole
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
evite
Ido
Verb
evite
- adverbial past passive participle of evar
Portuguese
Verb
evite
- inflection of evitar:
Scots
Alternative forms
- eveet, eveat
Etymology
From Middle Scots evite, from Early Modern English evite, from Middle French eviter, from Latin ēvītō (“to avoid”). Cognate with modern French éviter and English evite (obsolete in English since the 17th century).
Pronunciation
Verb
evite (third-person singular simple present evites, present participle evitin, simple past evitet, past participle evitet)
- (archaic, transitive) To avoid, escape, or shun.
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Spanish
Verb
evite
- inflection of evitar:
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