elusion
elusion noun: the act of eluding.
Noun
elusion (countable and uncountable, plural elusions)
- The act of eluding.
- 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.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46
elusion meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
elusion in Tamil
- தப்பித்துக்கொள்ளல், தப்பித்துக் கொள்ளுதல்
elusion in Malayalam
- ഉപായമായുള്ള ഒഴിയൽ, തറുതല, തന്ത്രം
Forms of elusion
| plural | elusions |
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Origin of elusion
Borrowed from Medieval Latin ēlūsiō.
Questions about elusion
- What does elusion mean?
- Elusion means the act of eluding.
- What is elusion in Tamil?
- Elusion in Tamil is தப்பித்துக்கொள்ளல், தப்பித்துக் கொள்ளுதல். See Elusion meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is elusion?
- Elusion is a noun.
- What is the plural of elusion?
- The plural of elusion is elusions.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: elusion (page history and authors); elusion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); elusion (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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