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Webster 1913 Edition
Apostrophic
Apˊos-troph′ic
,Adj.
Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.
Definition 2024
apostrophic
apostrophic
English
Adjective
apostrophic
- (rhetoric) Pertaining to the rhetoric use of, or using, apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue).
- Byron, in a letter to Mr. Murray written from Ravenna, 7 June 1820:
- Mrs. Hemans is a poet also, but too stiltified and apostrophic, […]
- 1971, John Theodore Braun, The Apostrophic Gesture, page 22:
- The approach itself is apostrophic; or, if a more canonical term is required, it is phenomenological.
- Byron, in a letter to Mr. Murray written from Ravenna, 7 June 1820:
- (orthography) Pertaining to the grammatical use of, or using, the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ').
Translations
pertaining to the apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue)
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pertaining to the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ')
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