evict
pronunciation
How to pronounce evict in British English:
UK [ɪˈvɪkt]
How to pronounce evict in American English:
US [ɪˈvɪkt]
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- Verb:
- expel or eject without recourse to legal process
- expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
Word Origin
- evict
- evict: [15] Ultimately, evict and evince [17] are the same word, although they have diverged considerably over the centuries. Both come from Latin ēvincere, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and vincere (source of English victory). This originally meant ‘defeat, conquer’, but a whole range of secondary legal senses developed: ‘recover something by defeating an opponent in a legal action’; ‘eject by judicial process’; and ‘prove by legal argument’.Both evict (acquired from the Latin past participle ēvictus) and evince have in the past been used for ‘conquer’ and ‘prove’, and it was not until the 18th century that they settled into their present meanings.=> evince, victory
- evict (v.)
- mid-15c., "recover (property) by judicial means," from Latin evictus, past participle of evincere "overcome and expel, conquer, subdue, vanquish; prevail over; supplant," from assimilated form of ex- "out," or perhaps here merely intensive (see ex-) + vincere "conquer" (see victor). Sense of "expel by legal process" first recorded in English 1530s, from a post-classical sense of the Latin word. Related: Evicted; evicting. Compare evince.
Example
- 1. More recently , a scandal also exploded about so-called robosigners , or the automated procedures that banks are using to evict homeowners .
- 2. The un troops spent their first two years helping to evict armed gangs from urban slums .
- 3. Urged on by david cameron , some councils have begun proceedings to evict them and their families from social housing .
- 4. When google decides to evict a small web publisher from its ad service , it sends a computer-generated form letter with the bad news .
- 5. Our rent was too good to be true , and soon we heard rumors that the hall was going to evict tenants to convert the studios into rehearsal space .