elision

• This prevents hiatus, which is banished from Provencal verse as it is from French, and here again theory and practice are in accord, for the elision of the e mute where this e follows a vowel readmits hiatus into the French line, and no such phenomenon is known to the Provencal. —  Frederic Mistral
• At this point, Dr. Marvin performed a smooth physical elision, and Dr. Harmony stepped forward to take his place. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 06 - June 2002
• Since the crew was a mixed tribal bag, mostly Luo and Kikuyu, he spoke in Swahili, a language of which Lew had only a smattering—certainly not enough to cope with the slurring elision-filled singsong rapid delivery of Charlie. —  Kahawa
• A vessel is ordered for "particular service," why so called I know not, except that there may be an elision, and it means "particularly disagreeable service." —  Olla Podrida
• It seems to be a mere normalization of the hyperbaton; the elimination of the elision (_mittere ad_) may have been a factor as well 13. —  The Last Poems of Ovid

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