enlevementn.
/ɛnˈliːvm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ɑnˈlɛvmɑ̃/, /ɛnˈlivm(ə)nt/, Scottish English /ɛnˈlivm(ə)nt/ Scots Law.
A carrying off (of a woman or child); an abduction. Sometimes employed by modern English writers merely as French, without reference to its earlier adoption.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > [noun]
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abreption1550
man-stealing1577
plagium1577
raptc1614
abduction1632
man-stealth1663
plagiary1673
kidnapping1682
enlevement1769
plagiat1809
body-snatching1840
kidnappery1890
snatching1931
shanghaiing1985
1769 Ld. President in Scots Mag. Sept. 687/1 As to the enlevement of Mignon's child..such enlevement happened in July 1748.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 35 The development, enlevement, the desperate wound etc...become a mere matter of course.
1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon i. xvii, in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 239/2 All the town being up about the enlèvement.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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