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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Vanishing; evanescent.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent.

Examples

  • “God will bear no longer with pretences; no outward appearances or evanid affections, in a temporary humiliation for a day, though in the observation of the most solemn duties required on such a day, will answer the mind of God herein.”

    The Sermons of John Owen

  • “And although these things in some are subordinated unto a farther and more effectual work of the Spirit of God upon them, yet with many they prove evanid and fading, their goodness in them being "as a morning cloud, and as the early dew which passeth away," Hos. vi.”

    Pneumatologia

  • “And hereof evanid satisfaction, temporary resolutions for a kind of compliance with the things spoken, with, it may be, some few perishing endeavours after some change of life, are the best effects of all such discourses.”

    Pneumatologia

  • “(as we call it) of this delicate and evanid flower, which I leave to the chymist and the ladies who are worthy the secrets.”

    Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees

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