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eclipse (n.)
"interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other heavenly body by the intervention of another heavenly body," c. 1300, from Old French eclipse "eclipse, darkness" (12c.), from Latin eclipsis, from Greek ekleipsis "an eclipse; an abandonment," literally "a failing, forsaking," from ekleipein "to forsake a usual place, fail to appear, be eclipsed," from ek "out" (see ex-) + leipein "to leave" (from PIE root *leikw- "to leave"). Compare ellipsis, ecliptic.
also from c. 1300
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