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5. What need a man forestall his date of grief. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Syn. To escape; elude; evade; eschew. To Avoid, Shun. Avoid in its commonest sense means, to keep clear of, an extension of the meaning, to withdraw one's self from. It denotes care taken not to come near or in contact; as, to avoid certain persons or places. Shun is a stronger term, implying more prominently the idea of intention. The words may, however, in many cases be interchanged. No man can pray from his heart to be kept from temptation, if the take no care of himself to avoid it. So Chanticleer, who never saw a fox, David avoided out of his presence. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Avoidances and drainings of water. |
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