evanishment

English

Etymology

From evanish +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɪˈvanɪʃmənt/

Noun

evanishment (plural evanishments)

  1. (now rare) Vanishing, disappearance.
    • 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia:
      There the treaty extinguishes , not by the election or declaration of the party remaining in statu quo ; but independantly of that , by the evanishment of the object
    • 2011, Adam Roberts, By Light Alone, Gollancz, published 2012, page 99:
      They all took an Easter holiday in Tokyo, their first since Leah's evanishment.
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