Meanings
present singular third person evanishes · participle present evanishing · participle past evanished · past evanished
- archaicintransitiveoftenpoeticTo vanish.
Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm.
1790, Robert Burns, Tam o'Shanter1 more example
So does hope spring from the burning passions, which consume their home and themselves—so does it wander through the future, making its own charmed path—and so does it evanish away: lost in the horizon, it grows at last too faint for outline.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 271
Origin
- Latinevanescere
- Old Frenchesvanir
- Middle English[Term?]
- Englishevanish
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French esvanir, compare Latin evanescere. See evanesce, vanish.
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