Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for E-LOPE-MENT
E-LOPE-MENT, n.
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 as an apprentice, in like manner.
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