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elopement
[ ih-lohp-muhnt ]
noun
- an act or instance of running off secretly, especially to be married.
- an act or instance of a patient or person in care leaving a hospital, care facility, or safe area independently without notifying anyone: wandering ( def 6 ).
Nursing homes need strategies to cope with elopement.
- a small wedding ceremony with few or no guests and often without a reception:
The couple had a quiet elopement in Dublin with only their parents and an officiant present.
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- non·e·lope·ment noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of elopement1
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Example Sentences
It is not merely elopement, not merely marriage, it is exposure!
She had promised to meet Wildeve by the Barrow this very night at eight, to give a final answer to his pleading for an elopement.
And as to the projected elopement, she felt very certain of being forgiven for that as soon as she came out a baroness.
Oh, but the elopement of a young unmarried couple is a pretty romance; ours would be a hideous scandal.
Your mother has suffered too much unhappiness by your first elopement: I shall not so easily permit you to quit her a second time.
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