Elope
Elope , intransitive verb
[Dutch ontloopen to run away; pref. ont- (akin to German ent-, Anglo-Saxon and-, compare English answer) + loopen to run; akin to English leap. See Leap, transitive verb]
To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.
Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance.