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elopement

[ ih-lohp-muhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an act or instance of running off secretly, as 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.

First recorded in 1600–10; elope ( def ) + -ment ( def )

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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