elusion en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin ēlūsiō.
Meanings
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(countable, rare, uncountable) The act of eluding.
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| elusions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |