Meaning of evite | Babel Free

Definitions

To avoid.

Early, Modern, Scotland, archaic, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

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

“... 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.”

“"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.”

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