Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The act or an instance of eluding or escaping; evasion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The act, or abstract properties, of eluding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Escape by artifice or deceit; evasion; deception; fraud.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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.
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Pointing to the 25% white vote for him, I will bet, is an elusion.
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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).
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What if I am sleeping? what if this life is a lie just a big elusion?
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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.
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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
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Observe the preoccupation of leaving the god no avenue of elusion — every possible contingency is named.
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