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Plural of evasion

regular plural

The plural of evasion is evasions.

Forms of evasion

Singularevasion /ɪˈveɪʒən/
Pluralevasions
Countablecountable and uncountable

Evasions in a sentence

  • In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings, and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.2011, Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals, page 99
  • The second is the contrast with the inarticulate stumblings, mumblings, evasions and half-truths of our current president.2008 March 20, “Obama Challenges the Racial Divide”, in New York Times. From the entry mumbling
  • Its very downwardnesses are themselves conditions of its succeeding upwardnesses, its silences and evasions of its communications and confessions.1922, The Sewanee Review, Volume 30. From the entry downwardnesses
  • Viewed simply as a novel, “Lolita” deals with situations and emotions that would remain exasperatingly vague to the reader had their expression been etiolated by means of platitudinous evasions.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC. From the entry platitudinous

Meaning of evasion

  1. noun The act of eluding or evading or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

Full definition of evasion

Questions about the plural of evasion

What is the plural of evasion?
The plural of evasion is evasions.
Is evasion countable?
Evasion is a countable and uncountable noun.

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