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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[LL.

elusio

, fr. L.

eludere

, elusum. See

Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.

Noun.

s as z. [L. elusio. See Elude.] An escape by artifice or deception; evasion.

See also: elusión

elusion ‎(countable and uncountable, plural elusions)

The act of eluding.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
  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.