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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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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