Complete Definition of "eclipsis"

English
wikipedia|Irish initial mutations
Noun
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#obsolete An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase

  1. A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted

#(in Irish grammar) The suppression of the sounds of certain radical consonants by prefixing others

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