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Elision

noun

Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next).

A deliberate act of omission. Synonyms: exception, exclusion.

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"Elision" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

... 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

... 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

... the body of the line is not counted as a syllable before a word beginning with a vowel or mute h (elision). ...

— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield

... vocabulary the syllable which may be elided is enclosed in a bracket, and in compound words and phrases the elision is marked with an apostrophe, as in the ...

— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson