All 5 Uses
avert
in
1984, by Orwell
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- It was no use, it changed nothing, it did not produce more chocolate, it did not avert the child's death or her own; but it seemed natural to her to do it.†
p. 164.8 *
- Therefore, from the point of view of the new groups who were on the point of seizing power, human equality was no longer an ideal to be striven after, but a danger to be averted.†
p. 204.4
- Each of the three powers which now divide the world is in fact unconquerable, and could only become conquerable through slow demographic changes which a government with wide powers can easily avert.†
p. 207.4
- If human equality is to be forever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.†
p. 216.8
- It is; why should human equality be averted?†
p. 216.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(avert as in: avert her eyes) turn away or aside -- often to turn your eyes away from something
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(2)
(avert as in: avert a strike) prevent from happening
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)