Usually means: Omission of sounds in speech.
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  1. ecthlipsis: Merriam-Webster
  2. ecthlipsis: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ecthlipsis: Wordnik
  4. ecthlipsis: Wiktionary
  5. ecthlipsis: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Ecthlipsis, ecthlipsis: Dictionary.com
  7. Ecthlipsis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. ecthlipsis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Ecthlipsis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. ecthlipsis: FreeDictionary.org
  11. ecthlipsis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. ecthlipsis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ecthlipsis)

noun:  (phonology) The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.
noun:  (phonology, classics) In Latin, the elision of a final /m/, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.

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