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elusions

elusions is the plural of elusion.

Meaning of elusion

Noun

elusion (countable and uncountable, plural elusions)

  1. (rare) 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

Questions about elusions

What is elusions the plural of?
Elusions is the plural of elusion.

Words near elusions in the dictionary

  1. elurophobes
  2. elurophobia
  3. elurophobic
  4. Eluru
  5. elusion
  6. elusions
  7. elusive
  8. elusively
  9. elusiveness
  10. elusivenesses
  11. elusivity

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