elusion

See also: elusión

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ēlūsiō.

Noun

elusion (countable and uncountable, plural elusions)

1. The act of eluding.
   • 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:

     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.

Anagrams

• Luiseño