Present participle of eloign; the act of removing to a distance or hiding from view.
Present participle form of eloign, created by adding -ing to mark ongoing action.
The gerund 'eloigning' appears in old legal documents to describe the crime of deliberately hiding property—it's a perfect example of how English borrowed legal terminology that no longer appears in modern law.
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