Evite vs Invite - What's the difference?
evite | invite |
(dated) To avoid.
* 1678 , ,
* 1893 , ,
* 1941 , Ivan Nikolaevich Filipjev and Jacobus Hermanus Schuurmans Stekhoven, A manual of agricultural helminthology ,
To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
To request formally.
To encourage.
* 1902 , Roosevelt,
To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
* Milton
* Dryden
* Cowper
As verbs the difference between evite and invite
is that evite is to avoid while invite is to ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.As a noun invite is
an invitation.evite
English
Verb
- The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: ...
- "Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he. ...
- Goodey has criticised these experiments of Rostrup and is of the opinion that she did not quite evite experimental errors.
Derived terms
* evitable ----invite
English
Verb
- We invited our friends round for dinner.
- I invite you all to be seated.
- I always invite criticism of my definitions.
- Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
- The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
- to inveigle and invite the unwary sense
- shady groves, that easy sleep invite
- There no delusive hope invites despair.