Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To vanish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To vanish.
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- verb archaic, intransitive To
vanish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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From thenceforth no vexation, care, or grief shall take such deep impression in my heart, how hugely great or vehement soever it otherwise appear, but that it shall evanish forthwith at the sight of that my future babe, and at the hearing of the chat and prating of its childish gibberish.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Dangers fly back, run from, and shun me whithersoever I go, seven leagues around, as in the presence of the sovereign a subordinate magistracy is eclipsed; or as clouds and darkness quite evanish at the bright coming of a radiant sun; or as all sores and sicknesses did suddenly depart at the approach of the body of St. Martin a Quande.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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That as dust which flits up without wings I might pass and evanish
The Suppliants 2002
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Dangers fly back, run from, and shun me whithersoever I go, seven leagues around, as in the presence of the sovereign a subordinate magistracy is eclipsed; or as clouds and darkness quite evanish at the bright coming of a radiant sun; or as all sores and sicknesses did suddenly depart at the approach of the body of St. Martin a Quande.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Gregorian water as of the stars which they wore, they might make them disappear and evanish.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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That as dust which flits up without wings I might pass and evanish
The Suppliants 2002
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Gregorian water as of the stars which they wore, they might make them disappear and evanish.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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From thenceforth no vexation, care, or grief shall take such deep impression in my heart, how hugely great or vehement soever it otherwise appear, but that it shall evanish forthwith at the sight of that my future babe, and at the hearing of the chat and prating of its childish gibberish.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The townis of Dundie and Sanctandrois war arrayed in ane uther battell, who come nocht to the sight of the ennemy, till that efter xij houris the mist began to evanish, and than passed some of thair horsmen to a montane, from the height whairof thay mycht discerne our nomber.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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The distance between these two opposites De Quincey does not traverse by violent leaps; he does not by some feat of legerdemain evanish from the fields of impassioned eloquence, where he is an unrivalled master, to appear forthwith in those of intellectual gymnastics, where, at least, he is not surpassed.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
hernesheir commented on the word evanish
(Poetical): to disappear; vanish; cease to exist; disappear by imperceptible degrees.
"Mine is the atom of clay for the grave,
Ours is the Earth with hill, valley and wave:
Mine will evanish like corpse in the sod,
Ours will arise to the heaven, Oh God! -- Goodwyn Barmby
(First stanza of the 5-stanza poem "Mine and Ours" in Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, published by The Punch Office, v.4, 1846 Jul-Dec, 1848)
January 11, 2009