Both Uses of
evade
in
The Awakening
- She answered her husband with friendly evasiveness,—not with any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to Fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.†
Chpt 35
- She got it into her head that Victor was in love with Mrs. Pontellier, and he gave her evasive answers, framed so as to confirm her belief.†
Chpt 39 *
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