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In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] vocabulary
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evanesce
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Definition:to vanish into a vapor or mist
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The reader may choose to think of him as possibly no more than a sublunary druggist; it may be so, but my faith is better—I believe him to have evanesced, or evaporated.
Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
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with the utmost profundity, evanescence, and mystery -
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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