elision, the slurring or suppression of...
elision, the slurring or suppression of a vowel sound or syllable, usually by fusing a final unstressed vowel with a following word beginning with a vowel or mute h, as in French l'homme or in Shakespeare's ‘Th'expense of spirit’. In poetry, elision is used in order to fit the words to the metre of a verse line (see synaeresis). Another form of contraction sometimes distinguished from elision is syncope, in which a letter or syllable within a word is omitted (e.g. o'er for over, heav'n for heaven).
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