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Definition of Averts
1. avert [v] - See also: avert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Averts
Literary usage of Averts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"Fickle and unloyal as the rose has thus proved itself to be, it averts your
censure like other fair offenders. If to her share some floral errors fall, ..."
2. The Queen of Naples and Lord Nelson: An Historical Biography Based on Mss by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1889)
"... and the Holiday-Makers—From Naples to Leghorn—Bridge- Tournament at Pisa—King
and Grand Duke—Maria Caroline averts the Storm—Northward to Milan—Bounding ..."
3. On the Border with Crook by John Gregory Bourke (1891)
"CROOK'S CLOSING YEARS—HE averts A WAR WITH THE UTES— A MEMBER OF THE COM MISSION
WHICH SECURED A CESSION OF ELEVEN MILLIONS ..."
4. Roger Williams: The Pioneer of Religious Liberty by Oscar Solomon Straus (1894)
"He averts, for a second time, Indian war. THE spirit of liberty is kindled in
the fires of persecution. The rights of man are consecrated by suffering and ..."
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