Thesaurus / elision
other words for elision
MOST RELEVANT
- breach
- carelessness
- exclusion
- failing
- lapse
- oversight
- blank
- break
- cancellation
- chasm
- default
- disregard
- elimination
- failure
- forgetfulness
- gap
- hiatus
- inadvertence
- inadvertency
- lack
- lacuna
- neglect
- overlook
- preclusion
- preterition
- pretermission
- prohibition
- repudiation
- skip
- slip
- withholding
- cutting out
- disregardance
- excluding
- ignoring
- leaving out
- missing
- noninclusion
- overlooking
- passing over
- slighting
opposites of elision
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
We must here read 'hold-e,' without elision of final e, which is preserved by the csura.
Or read: 'That mad her to slepe sone'; without elision of e in made (Koch).
Note that there is no elision with entre except in compound verbs (entr'ouvrir, etc.).
CONTES FRANAISDOUGLAS LABAREE BUFFUM
For ce qui arrivera, notice the incorrect use of que as subject (no elision would occur with qui).
CONTES FRANAISDOUGLAS LABAREE BUFFUM
What has been said about syncope applies also to the relative spheres of elision and hiatus.
Such is the origin of the term Chicago, which is a derivative, by elision and French annotation, from the word Chi-kaug-ong.
Before a vowel, the final -e could suffer elision, which reduced the form to lov'd' (luvd).
The general rules for elision and the slurring of light syllables are given above, in 67.
Notice some examples where the caesura necessarily preserves a final -e from elision, as in B 3989; where tal-e occurs before al.
But it is necessary to add a few words as regards his system of accentuation, elision, contraction, and other noteworthy points.
WORDS RELATED TO ELISION
- abbreviation
- abridgment
- compression
- condensation
- condensing
- confinement
- confining
- constriction
- curtailing
- curtailment
- decrease
- decreasing
- deflating
- deflation
- diminishing
- diminution
- drawing together
- dwindling
- elision
- evaporation
- lessening
- narrowing
- omission
- omitting
- receding
- recession
- reducing
- reduction
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- tensing
- tightening
- withdrawal
- abbreviation
- abridgment
- compression
- condensation
- condensing
- confinement
- confining
- constriction
- curtailing
- curtailment
- decrease
- decreasing
- deflating
- deflation
- diminishing
- diminution
- drawing together
- dwindling
- elision
- evaporation
- lessening
- narrowing
- omission
- omitting
- receding
- recession
- reducing
- reduction
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- tensing
- tightening
- withdrawal
- blank
- breach
- break
- cancellation
- carelessness
- chasm
- cutting out
- default
- disregard
- disregardance
- elimination
- elision
- excluding
- exclusion
- failing
- failure
- forgetfulness
- gap
- hiatus
- ignoring
- inadvertence
- inadvertency
- lack
- lacuna
- lapse
- leaving out
- missing
- neglect
- noninclusion
- overlook
- overlooking
- oversight
- passing over
- preclusion
- preterition
- pretermission
- prohibition
- repudiation
- skip
- slighting
- slip
- withholding
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.