Definition of Evanesces

1. Verb. (third-person singular of evanesce) ¹

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Definition of Evanesces

1. evanesce [v] - See also: evanesce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Evanesces

evaluatees
evaluates
evaluating
evaluation studies
evaluations
evaluative
evaluator
evaluators
evanesce
evanesced
evanescence
evanescences
evanescent
evanescently
evanesces (current term)
evanescing
evangalistic
evangel
evangelian
evangelic
evangelical
evangelicalism
evangelically
evangelicalness
evangelicals
evangelicism
evangelicity
evangelisation
evangelise

Literary usage of Evanesces

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato (1902)
"Ño sooner has this general notion been formed tha n it evanesces before the dialectic of Socrates ; and Nicias appears fri m the other side with the ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"About the third day after the animal has become attached, the anterior adductor evanesces, and only the posterior remains. The atrophy of the anterior ..."

3. Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Dugald Stewart (1859)
"... or, what is the same thing, in determining what, and how many, qualities may be abstracted, before the general idea evanesces into a mere word. ..."

4. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1904)
"In dealing with the content of closed sets of points, we need therefore only consider perfect sets, since En is always perfect, unless it evanesces, ie, ..."

5. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1865)
"There is a philanthropy that loses its personality in vague words, and evanesces in “ glittering generalities.” Of this sort, there has been enough in our ..."

6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"It is a poor thing to recall flat jokes, and when the lights in the banqueting-hall have gone out, the delicate aroma of feasts evanesces forever. ..."

7. The Metropolitan (1832)
"... space of universal suffrage, whilst it can also contract itself to all inferior dimensions until it evanesces in the constitution of a close borough. ..."

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