evitation

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English

Etymology

Latin evitatio.

Noun

evitation (countable and uncountable, plural evitations)

  1. (obsolete) A shunning; avoidance.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “III. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      It is certain that in all bodies there is an appetite of union , and evitation of solution of continuity

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “evitation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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