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expavesco
expavesco
Latin
Verb
expavēscō (present infinitive expavēscere, perfect active expāvī); third conjugation, no passive
- I become very frightened
- I shrink/shy away from
- 1832, Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos
- Procul dubio expavissetis ad solitudinem vestram […]
- Undoubtedly, you would have become very frightened by your solitude […]
- Procul dubio expavissetis ad solitudinem vestram […]
- 1832, Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos
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References
- expavesco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- expavesco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “expavesco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.