Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of eluding or escaping; evasion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Escape by artifice or deceit; evasion; deception; fraud.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act, or abstract properties, of
eluding .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I was one of the honest supporters of Sen. Hillary, before I witnessed her on the podium when start elusion the sniper and other stories knowingly she is lying on the face of American people on live TV more than couple times.
Obama, campaign both say he's not ready to declare victory 2008
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Pointing to the 25% white vote for him, I will bet, is an elusion.
Hillary Campaign Memo: The Race "Remains A Delegate Fight" 2009
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A tension exists between the chase and elusion, the object and the desirer, with the passive and the aggressive personalities becoming interchangeable.
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[D] elusion is a matter of top-down disturbance in some fundamental beliefs of the subject, which may consequently affect experiences and actions (Campbell 2001, p. 89).
Delusion Bortolotti, Lisa 2009
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Pointing to the 25% white vote for him, I will bet, is an elusion.
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What if I am sleeping? what if this life is a lie just a big elusion?
lupee Diary Entry lupee 2004
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Its elusion has left people impatient, frustrated and angry.
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The philtres of romance are brewed to free us from this unsatisfying life that is calendared by fiscal years, and to contrive a less disastrous elusion of our own personalities than many seek dispersedly in drink and drugs and lust and fanaticism, and sometimes in death.
Beyond Life 1921
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Still, he could guess at her reasons; and he comprehended now that Ettarre had spoken a very terrible truth -- "All men I must evade at the last, and innumerable are the ways of my elusion."
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She had the cleverness of elusion that her sex displays in all the species, from
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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