elision

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
noun a deliberate act of omission

From Latin ēlīsion-, the stem of ēlīsio (“striking out, forcing out”).

Important despatches are missing, and elisions sometimes occur without indication. — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams
I found the half-forgotten Southern intonations and elisions as pleasing to my ear as they had formerly been. — Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
In her very lapses, her gentle elision of the aitch, he found a foreign, an infantile, a pathetic charm. — The Creators: A Comedy, May Sinclair

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