Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Vanishing; evanescent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent.
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- adjective obsolete Liable to
vanish ;faint ;weak ;evanescent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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God will bear no longer with pretences; no outward appearances or evanid affections, in a temporary humiliation for a day, though in the observation of the most solemn duties required on such a day, will answer the mind of God herein.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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And although these things in some are subordinated unto a farther and more effectual work of the Spirit of God upon them, yet with many they prove evanid and fading, their goodness in them being "as a morning cloud, and as the early dew which passeth away," Hos. vi.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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And hereof evanid satisfaction, temporary resolutions for a kind of compliance with the things spoken, with, it may be, some few perishing endeavours after some change of life, are the best effects of all such discourses.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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(as we call it) of this delicate and evanid flower, which I leave to the chymist and the ladies who are worthy the secrets.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
the_maori commented on the word evanid
adj. Evanescent; fleeting; transient
September 27, 2012
qms commented on the word evanid
Bold Lucifer's too highly leavened id
Assured that his glory be evanid.
He famously fell
But ruling in hell
Pleases him better than heaven did.
March 2, 2016