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In literature, “eloign” is employed both in its literal and figurative senses to denote a state of separation or distance. Authors use it to describe physical remoteness, as seen when a location or object is depicted as removed from a central point, like a fountain being a bit removed from a fort [1] or entities cast as distant from their origins [2]. The term also surfaces in interpersonal contexts, portraying emotional or social distancing, such as keeping someone away from another [3]. In more reflective passages, writers evoke the concept of distancing oneself from nature or familiar norms to achieve a higher understanding or transformation [4], while historical texts reveal its usage in refined English forms, indicating both geographic and ideological separation [5][6].
  1. Et d'autant que la fonteine estoit vn peu eloignée du Fort, ils firent vn pui dans icelui Fort, de l'eau duquel ils se sont fort bien trouvez.
    — from The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
  2. Eloigné des sources, il ne lui reste qu'un seul moyen pour les faire couler dans sa bibliotheque.
    — from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon
  3. aurois tu prete l oreil a des amis perfides qui vouloient peutetre te tenir eloignée de moi?
    — from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott
  4. And this is the true exposition of the rule that the artist must first eloign himself from nature in order to return to her with full effect.
    — from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  5. Chambers alters to 'eloign', but Donne's is a good English form.
    — from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 2 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne
  6. letter to Lord Willoughby Queen Elizabeth hath the word "eloign.
    — from Anima Poetæ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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