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evasion|ɪˈveɪʒən|
Also 5 evasyown, 6 evacion, -tion.
[a. Fr. évasion, ad. late L. ēvāsiōn-em, n. of action f. ēvādĕre: see evade.]
1. The action of escaping from confinement or danger; escape.
Now rare, exc. in writers influenced by Fr. usage.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. 306 Al that tyme fro his [Oldcastle's] evasion [from the Tower] about Myhilmesse onto the Ephihanie. 1601Bp. Barlow Def. Prot. Relig. 175 By hope of euasion from Purgatorie in time. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus iii. 4 In any miserie we shall haue assured felicitie..in temptation assurance of euasion. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. iii. xi, The next fair river..Topping the hill, breaks forth in fierce evasion. 1779J. Moore View Soc. Fr. II. lii. 29 Contemplating the happy evasion he had made from the cabinets at Frankfort. 1834Blackw. Mag. XXXV. 618 An account of the evasion of Louis XVI, and the arrest of the unfortunate monarch at Varennes. 1871H. Ainsworth Tower Hill ii. x, The plan of evasion was frustrated by the prisoner's irresolution.
†b. Means, opportunity, or way of escape. Obs.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 271 [God] in the midst of the Temptation will make such an evasion, as, etc. 1613Heywood Brazen Age Wks. 1874 III. 211 Ere you enwrap your selfe into these perils, Whence there is no euasion. 1650Sc. Metr. Ps. lxxxviii. 8 So Shut up, that I find no evasion for me. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) IX. 250 The unhappy woman, who found herself without evasion or resource, swallowed the draught.
2. The action of avoiding or escaping (a blow, missile, pursuit, etc.) by artifice or contrivance.
1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 11 In a storm they [Bees] will help themselves by flying under the Lee-side of an hedge, [etc.]..But if it bee a plain Champaign Country, where evasions avail nothing; then, etc. 1822Forsyth Roland's Mod. Art Fencing 201 Evasion means to avoid being reached by a thrust, even when you are near enough to receive it.
3. The action of evading (a duty, law, requisition, an argument, charge, etc.); dodging, prevarication, shuffling. Also, an instance of this.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. i. 51 No more euasion: We haue with leauen'd, and prepared choice Proceeded to you, therefore take your honors. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 139 Perhaps he said only for evasion. 1685H. More Paralip. Proph. 447 There is no evasion from the strength of this Argument. 1711Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 210 But this I looked on as Evasion. 1746Wesley Princ. Methodist 9, I have found this in many of you, i.e. much subtlety, much Evasion and Disguise. 1783Burke Rep. Affairs India Wks. XI. 53 He was ordered at once to furnish 5,000 horse..‘on evasion’ he was declared a violator of treaties. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 376 To do it..is artifice and evasion. 1846Prescott Ferd. & Is. I. vii. 326 If the prisoner..was suspected of evasion, he was subjected to the torture. a1862Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 71, I deem anonymous writing of every kind to be an evasion of responsibility. 1868J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. I. 59 The king's licence for the evasion of the act.
b. The means of evading; an evasive argument, shuffling excuse, subterfuge.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. i. 112 And be the text þai decerne all thai casis, but exceptyown: By that is nane evasyown. a1533Frith Disput. Purgat., I say that this their evasion is nothing worth. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 669 The prohibition goeth before the vowe, wherefore this euation can haue no place. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xiii. (1651) 118 The meaner sort have no evasion why they should not be counted mad. 1777Priestley Philos. Necess. ii. 19 By such poor evasions do some persons think to shelter themselves from the force of conviction. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. I. 451 A miserable evasion, which did not in the least touch the assertion of his adversary. 1874Green Short Hist. iv. 171 The towns..could generally force the Crown by evasions and delays to a compromise.
4. In primary Latin sense: Going out, exit, sallying forth. rare.
a1659Osborn Queries Wks. (1673) 605 And from this the whole World comes to be so universally Inhabited, Every Family seeking rest by Evasion. 1669Flamsteed in Rigaud Corr. Sc. Men (1841) II. 81 In the eclipse he ought to observe the spurious and the true shades, and their evasions from the moon's superficies. 1837De Quincey Revolt Tartars Wks. IV. 144 If the Kalmuck evasion should prosper. |