[In AF. (14th c.) alopement: see prec. and -MENT.] The action of eloping, in various senses. See the vb.
[1338. in Year-bks. 11–12 Edw. III. (Horw.), 587. Lalopement fut alegge en autre counte qe le dower ne fut demande.]
1641. Termes de la Ley, 133. Elopement is when a married woman departeth from her husband with an adulterer.
1698. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), IV. 346. She had 3 children since her elopement.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe (ed. 3), I. 6–7. Without any Purpose of making an Elopement that time.
a. 1763. Shenstone, Ess., 2. The accidental elopements … of a composition.
1819. Byron, Juan, I. cciii. Myself, and several now in Seville, Saw Juan’s last elopement with the devil.
1822. J. Flint, Lett. fr. Amer., 115. The indolence and disorderly conduct of slaves, together with their frequent elopements.
1853. De Quincey, Wks., XIV. 460. My elopement from school.
