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enlevement Sc. Law.|ɛnˈliːvmənt, ɑ̃lɛvmɑ̃|
[Fr. enlèvement, f. enlever to carry off, f. en-:—L. inde away + lever to lift.]
A carrying off (of a woman or child); an abduction.
Sometimes employed by mod.Eng. writers merely as Fr., without reference to its earlier adoption.
1769Ld. President in Scots Mag. Sept. 687/1 As to the enlevement of Mignon's child..such enlevement happened in July 1748. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. i, The development, enlèvement, the desperate wound etc...become a mere matter of course. 1852Thackeray B. Lyndon xvi, All the town being up about the enlèvement. |