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Elision

noun
1.
Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next).
2.
A deliberate act of omission.  Synonyms: exception, exclusion.





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"Elision" Quotes from Famous Books



... been made free of Jotapata. That celebrated romance had been going on all these years with the elision of several generations; because though few members of the family were allowed to see their twenty-fifth year, it was impossible to squeeze them all into the crusading times; and besides the reigning favourites must be treated to an adventure with ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... eleven, Leibnitz records, that he made, on one occasion, three hundred Latin verses without elision between breakfast and dinner. A hundred hexameters, or fifty distichs, in a day, is generally considered a fair pensum for a boy of sixteen at a ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... elision. One leaves out the train of thought in between. Between you and me there's no need for the lengthy explanation. There's scarcely need for ...
— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg
... adapted to them in Latin, it was more frequently used with a looser syllabic arrangement, retaining the divisional characteristics of the older prosody, but neglecting quantity, the strict rules of elision, and so forth. ...
— The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) • George Saintsbury
... of the poet, who, in order to indulge in the alliteration which was accounted one great ornament of Saxon poetry, had sacrificed sense to sound, and used words in the most forced and remote sense, provided they could be compelled into his service. There was also all the obscurity arising from elision, and from the most extravagant ...
— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott


Words linked to "Elision" :   elide, omission, deletion


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