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Webster 1913 Edition

Elopement

E-lope′ment

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Noun.
The act of eloping; secret departure; – said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

Webster 1828 Edition

Elopement

ELO'PEMENT

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Noun.
Private or unlicensed departure from the place or station to which one is assigned by duty or law; as the elopement of a wife from her husband, or of a daughter from her father's house, usually with a lover or gallant. It is sometimes applied to the departure of a son or an apprentice, in like manner.

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