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Elope
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison.