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Elusion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of eluding. countable, rare, uncountable

    "No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness."

  2. 2
    the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) wordnet

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ēlūsiō.

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