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Definition of Elision
1. Noun. Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next).
2. Noun. A deliberate act of omission. "With the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
Generic synonyms: Omission
Derivative terms: Elide, Except, Exclude
Definition of Elision
1. Noun. The deliberate omission of something. ¹
2. Noun. The omission of a letter or syllable between two words; sometimes marked with an apostrophe. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elision
1. the act of eliding [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elision
Literary usage of Elision
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"elision, APOCOPE 58. elision is the expulsion of a short vowel at the end ...
elision does not occur in (a) monosyllables, except such as end in t (as т£, ..."
2. The Prologue in the Old French and Provençal Mystery by David Hobart Carnahan (1905)
"elision AND HIATUS. elision. The modern rules for the elision of final ...
The following three conditions of the question are to be considered: I. elision. ..."
3. A Greek Grammar for Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1920)
"elision TO. elision is the expulsion of a short vowel at the end of a word before
a word ... elision is often not expressed to the eye except in poetry. ..."
4. Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Troilus by George Lyman Kittredge (1891)
"The -e in Dane ( = Daphne) seems to have been weak (cf. the rhyme Diane : Dane,
KT 1205-6) : hence we have ordinary elision in 0 ..."
5. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"Interior elision does not always occur in forming compounds ... taking away) is
the elision, or slurring, of e in poetry at the beginning of a word standing ..."
6. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1891)
"elision, Crasis, <Jr. 376.1 A final vowel cut off before a word beginning with
a vowel is said to suffer elision ..."
7. Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects: Grammar, Selected by Carl Darling Buck (1910)
"elision 91. elision is common to all dialects, but, as in Attic, subject to great
... In general elision is most frequent in the conjunctions and particles ..."
8. Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects: Grammar, Selected by Carl Darling Buck (1910)
"In general elision is most frequent in the conjunctions and particles such as
Sé (oSe, ... Por elision in place of usual crasis, see 94. Aphaeresis 92. ..."
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