ellipt

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Etymology

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Back-formation from ellipsis.

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Verb

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ellipt (third-person singular simple present ellipts, present participle ellipting, simple past and past participle ellipted)

  1. (linguistics) To omit (from an utterance) by ellipsis.
    • 2013, Noel Burton-Roberts, Analysing Sentences, page 210:
      [] a couple of further differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses: (1) in contrast with restrictives, the wh-phrase in non-restrictives cannot be ellipted; []

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