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Evanescence   Listen
noun
Evanescence  n.  The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plans or hopes.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Evanescence" Quotes from Famous Books



... remain here, O Khalid. Come, live with me in the Hermitage. Come back to Mother Church; return not to the wicked world. O Khalid, we must inherit the Kingdom of Allah, and we can not do so by being anarchist like the prowlers of the forest. Meditate on the insignificance and evanescence ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani

... whose deterioration, while it condemned it to living obscurity, by a strange obliquity of moral perception constitutes its title to posthumous renown. To embody the flying colours of folly, to arrest evanescence, to give to bubbles the globular consistency as well as form, to exhibit on the stage the piebald denizen of the stable, and the half-reasoning parent of combs, to display the brisk locomotion of Columbine, or the tortuous attitudinizing of Punch;—these are the occupations ...
— Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum • James and Horace Smith



Words linked to "Evanescence" :   disappearance



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