Both Uses of
evade
in
War and Peace
- He remembered how carefully and at what length everything relating to form and procedure was discussed at those meetings, and how sedulously and promptly all that related to the gist of the business was evaded.†
Chpt 6
- The universal historians give contradictory replies to that question, while the historians of culture evade it and answer something quite different.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
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(evade as in: evade the enemy) physically avoid or get away from; or: said of something that is hard to obtain