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Definition of Evanescence
1. Noun. The event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight. "The evanescence of the morning mist"
Definition of Evanescence
1. n. The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes.
Definition of Evanescence
1. Noun. The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; ¹
2. Noun. The event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight; ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Evanescence
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Evanescence
1. The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Evanescence
Literary usage of Evanescence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Varronianus: A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Ethnography of by John William Donaldson (1860)
"General remarks on the absorption or evanescence of the old Etruscan Language.
It only remains that I should make a few remarks on the absorption or ..."
2. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the by Charles Waterton (1879)
"Beak of the Toucan—evanescence of the colours — The only mode of preserving them.
ON the fourteenth day after leaving Pernambuco, the SECOND brig cast ..."
3. Works by Herbert Spencer (1892)
"THE evanescence [? DIMINUTION] OF EVIL - ALL evil results from the non-adaptation
of constitution to conditions. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, ..."
4. An Inglorious Columbus, Or, Evidence that Hwui Shăn and a Party of Buddhist by Edward Payson Vining (1885)
"... of armour—Absence of fortifications—Literary characters— The pomp which
surrounded the Aztec monarch—Musical instruments—The evanescence of Montezuma'a ..."
5. History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour by Alfred Guy L'Estrange (1878)
"Subjective Character of the Ludicrous—The Subject little Studied—Obstacles to
the Investigation—evanescence —Mental Character of the Ludicrous—Distinction ..."
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