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elision
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Definition:1. the intentional omission of a vowel or a sound from a word (as opposed to haplography, which is accidental). The most common examples in English are contractions, such as "can't", "I'm", etc.2. an omission of anything
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Including a 5 for the letter e dropped by elision from the le before Empereur.— A.M.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman. Simon & Schuster
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he was guilty of elisions and interpolations which were equally unexpected, and that his discourse was pervaded by something sultry and vast, something almost African in its rich, basking tone, something that suggested the teeming expanse of the cotton-field.
Henry James. The Bostonians
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