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The act of running away with a lover (usually to get married)
Answer for the clue "The act of running away with a lover (usually to get married) ", 9 letters:
elopement
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
To elope , most literally, means to run away and to not come back to the point of origin. More colloquially, elopement is often used to refer to a marriage conducted in sudden and secretive fashion, usually involving a hurried flight away from one's place ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from elope + -ment . (The word was in Anglo-French in 14c. as alopement ).
Usage examples of elopement.
She had managed, in the space of three days, to aid a pickpocket, assist in an elopement, set free a deserter and upset the whole schedule of a notable coaching company and, in the process, charm everyone with whom she came into contact, himself included.
Fish, whose first name had long ago escaped memory, she had imbarked on a whirlwind elopement and six months later had secured a mysterious divorce.
Too often the County had been scandalized by elopements when one or the other of the participating parties was practically at the altar with a third.
So there had been a number of elopements with Yankee officers which broke the hearts of Atlanta families.
He was kind to her, however, to the end, and when the first baby girl was born and the young pair seemed to be in straitened circumstances, he made them an allowance until the day of his daughter's death, which occurred three years after her elopement, on the birth of her second child.
Indeed, I can't think how I came to say anything so shatter-brained, for something seemed to tell me at the outset that it was not an elopement!