Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art, skill, or practice of escaping.
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- noun The study or art of
escaping from aconstriction , e.g.rope ,handcuffs , etc.
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- noun the study of methods of escaping (especially as a form of entertainment)
Etymologies
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Examples
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They were interested in escapology and hypnotism at the time and the Empire was growing and the industrial revolution were growing at pace.
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"I absolutely loved the idea of escapology and had a good go at it and ended up like a lot of children, tied up in ropes and having to call for help."
NPR Topics: News 2010
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But unlike his contemporaries, who headed straight into an art course or an apprenticeship with the older guys in the industry, Steranko went off and learned stage magic, fire eating, the jazzmaster guitar, escapology.
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It might have worked before, but her earlier feat of escapology was just a bit too improbable to be repeated.
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010
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This certainly turns out to be the case, and a certain amount of escapology and gunplay is required.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Lone Ranger - 12 The Lone Ranger In Wild Horse Canyon Blue Tyson 2008
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JR: I know you are health-conscious, which comes from your work in escapology and so on.
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Whence the breathtaking speed and agile escapology of the antelope and the zebra?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Hypnotism was coming to the fore, escapology was something they were becoming interested in, so the idea of a showman isn't particularly unusual for that period of time, so all those elements and ingredients went into making Blackwood.
Interview: Lord Blackwood Himself, British Actor Mark Strong « FirstShowing.net 2009
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Whence the breathtaking speed and agile escapology of the antelope and the zebra?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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He inserted that Kingdom of God came with Christ, the idea we know as the ‘realized escapology.’
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Before long, he had made himself a student of escapology, taking lessons from some of Auschwitz’s most battle-hardened inmates – chief among them a grizzled captain in the Red Army – and forging ties with the camp’s secret underground resistance, slowly acquiring the knowhow to attempt what no Jew had done before.
Escape from Auschwitz: the most extraordinary Holocaust story you’ve never heard Jonathan Freedland 2022
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