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Webster 1913 Edition

Elopement

E-lope′ment

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Noun.
The act of eloping; secret departure; – said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

Webster 1828 Edition

Elopement

ELO'PEMENT

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Noun.
Private or unlicensed departure from the place or station to which one is assigned by duty or law; as the elopement of a wife from her husband, or of a daughter from her father's house, usually with a lover or gallant. It is sometimes applied to the departure of a son or an apprentice, in like manner.

Definition 2024

elopement

elopement

English

Noun

elopement ‎(plural elopements)

  1. The act of eloping
    • 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, chapter 46
      You may not have heard of the last blow-- Julia's elopement; she is gone to Scotland with Yates.
    • 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, chapter 27
      ...Jo...was already deep in the concoction of her story, being unable to decide whether the duel should come before the elopement or after the murder.

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