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/ɪvˈeɪd/ /ivˈeɪd/ Listen

verb

Evade v. t. (past & past part. evaded; pres. part. evading) To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. "The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles."

Evade v. t.

To escape; to slip away; sometimes with from. "Evading from perils." "Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove."

To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. "The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these... ways."

Synonyms: To equivocate; shuffle. See Prevaricate.

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... Do you suppose they are men of no reading or information? If they know any thing, they certainly know that the oath of naturalization they, the Catholics, take, weighs no more with them than a feather. A Catholic can evade the force of any oath, by a mental reservation. Here is what Sanchez says, the very highest Catholic authority, whose teaching, including this interpretation of oaths, has been endorsed by the ...

— Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; • William Gannaway Brownlow

... this? I could neither deny the fact, nor evade the conclusion—namely, that such is at present the popular belief. Yes—I at length rejoined—I have heard this language from the pulpit, and more than once from men who in any other place would explain it away ...

— Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc. • by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... daughters obeyed, and honored their fathers! Beggarly foreign professors wiped all that out of the minds of wealthy girls at boarding schools—just as they changed their backwoods pronunciation of French and Italian. Don't evade my question." ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... Joel's mind as to whether Persis had spent her time attending the theater or in the surgical ward of a hospital, caused him to evade a direct answer. ...

— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith

... hands of "the importer," and from as many persons as engaged in the slave-trade who were subjects of Great Britain, and residents of the colony; but the tax at length became a burden to them. In order to evade the law and escape the tax, they frequently went into Maryland and the Carolinas, and bought slaves, ostensibly for their own private use, but really to sell in the local market. To prevent this, an act was ...

— History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George W. Williams

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