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eviting

eviting is the present participle and gerund of evite.

Meaning of evite

Verb

evite (third-person singular simple present evites, present participle eviting, simple past and past participle evited)

  1. (Early, Modern, Scotland, archaic, transitive) To avoid.
    • The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: […]1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity

Questions about eviting

What is eviting the present participle and gerund of?
Eviting is the present participle and gerund of evite.

Words near eviting in the dictionary

  1. evited
  2. eviternal
  3. eviternally
  4. eviternity
  5. evites
  6. eviting
  7. evittate
  8. EVM
  9. EVMs
  10. evng
  11. evo

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