eloign

/ɪˈlɔɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English eloynen, from Anglo-Norman esloignier, Old French esloignier, from Vulgar Latin *exlongō, from Latin longe. Doublet of elongate.

eloign means To remove (something) to a distance. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

Why this word is great

ELOIGN — [Verb] To remove or take (something or oneself) to a distance, especially to avoid legal process. From Middle English eloynen, from Anglo-Norman esloignier, Old French esloignier, from Vulgar Latin *exlongō ("to put far off"), from Latin longē ("far"). Unlike "elude," which implies cunning evasion, or "sequester," which suggests protective seclusion, to eloign is to enact a stark, physical recession from jurisdiction. It is the debtor's coach rattling toward the border at night, the smuggler's chest buried at the foot of a blighted oak, or the crucial document spirited to a foreign vault. It is flight made physical, a surrender measured in miles, where distance itself redraws the map of accountability.

verb

To remove (something) to a distance.“Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property”
To remove (oneself); to retire, move away (from).“From worldy cares himselfe he did esloyne, / And greatly shunned manly exercise [...].”