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語源

From Middle English eloynen, from Anglo-Norman esloignier, Old French esloignier, from Vulgar Latin *exlongō, from Latin longe. Doublet of elongate.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɔɪn/

動詞

eloign (三人称単数 現在形 eloigns, 現在分詞 eloigning, 過去形および過去分詞形 eloigned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To remove (something) to a distance.
   • 1860, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union

     Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States.

2. (reflexive, now rare) To remove (oneself); to retire, move away (from).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 1, canto 4:

     From worldy cares himselfe he did esloyne, / And greatly shunned manly exercise [...].