Evanescent vs Abate - What's the difference?
evanescent | abate |
Vanishing, disappearing.
* 1837 , , "Footprints on the Sea-Shore" in Twice-Told Tales :
* 1911 , , Initials Only , ch. 19:
Ephemeral, momentary, fleeting.
* 1851 , , Moby Dick , ch. 46:
Barely there; almost imperceptible.
* 1888 , , "The Withered Arm":
* 1907 , , The Secret Agent , ch. 7:
* 1916 , , Twilight in Italy , ch. 1:
(transitive, obsolete, outside, legal) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
To become null and void.
(legal) To nullify; make void.
(obsolete) To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
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(obsolete) To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
(obsolete) To curtail; to deprive.
* 1605 , , King Lear , II.ii:
To reduce in amount, size, or value.
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To decrease in size, value, or amount.
To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
* 1597 , , [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/575 Essays or Counsels, Civil and Morall] :
* 1855 , , History of England from the Accession of James II, Part 3 , [http://books.google.com/books?id=MN5CNdgbSTYC&pg=PA267 page 267]:
To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
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To deduct or omit.
* 1845 , , The Church History of Britain , Volume 3, [http://books.google.com/books?id=OfefAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA100 page 100]:
To bar or except.
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To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
(obsolete) To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
(archaic) To destroy, or level to the ground.
* 1542 , , The Union of the Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and York :
(legal) To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.
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As an adjective evanescent
is evanescent.As a noun abate is
.evanescent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The sea was each little bird's great playmate. . . . In their airy flutterings, they seemed to rest on the evanescent spray.
- . . . making the ideal of my foolish girlhood seem as unsubstantial and evanescent as a dream in the glowing noontide.
- In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent .
- Her face too was fresh in colour, but it was of a totally different quality—soft and evanescent , like the light under a heap of rose-petals.
- While he was speaking the hands on the face of the clock behind the great man's back—a heavy, glistening affair of massive scrolls in the same dark marble as the mantelpiece, and with a ghostly, evanescent tick—had moved through the space of seven minutes.
- And I was pale, and clear, and evanescent , like the light, and they were dark, and close, and constant, like the shadow.
Synonyms
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* evanescence ----abate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) abaten, from (etyl) . Cognate to modern French abattre .Verb
(abat)- to abate a nuisance
- The writ has abated .
- to abate a writ
- The hyer that they were in this present lyf, the moore shulle they be abated and defouled in helle.
- Order restrictions and prohibitions to abate an emergency situation.
- She hath abated me of half my train.
- Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
- His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated .
- Not that they feel it so, but only to abate the edge of envy.
- The fury of Glengarry rapidly abated .
- We will abate this price from the total.
- Allowing nine thousand parishes (abating the odd hundreds) in England and Wales
- Abating his brutality, he was a very good master.
- The kynge of Scottes planted his siege before the castell of Norham, and sore abated the walls.
