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elision in WordNet English dictionary
noun- a deliberate act of omission
"with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
exception exclusion elision
- omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
elision
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elision in English Wiktionary
- (noun) The deliberate omission of something.
- (noun) The omission of a letter or syllable between two words; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.
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