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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



... before. The opening phrases of both octave and sestette are very fine; but the second quatrain and the second terzina, though with a quality of beauty, both seem somewhat to lack distinctness. The word rivers cannot be used with elision—the v is a hard pebble in the flow, and so are the closing consonants. You must put up with streams if you ...
— Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 • T. Hall Caine
... wrinkled hands with a little gesture of elision, at which her expressive shoulders assisted. She was of French extraction, the last survivor of an illustrious family; and reconciled as she had become to England—for years she had hardly left London—a slight and very pretty accent, and this trick of her shoulders, ...
— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore


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


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