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In some senses, apostrophation is marked as rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
apostrophation
noun 2
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1ADJ.
failed, superior
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noun
1
Personal address via apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).
I shall you make relacyon By way of apostrofacyon Under supportacyon Of your pacyent tolleracyon, […]
He was no doubt not superior to the apostrophation of his time; […]
2
The omission of parts of a word by means of an apostrophe (punctuation mark), contraction.
In some cases, however, the apostrophation failed of its purpose, if its purpose were indeed the reduction of redundant syllables: […]
Words are run together by apostrophation in lines 21, 24, 35, 44, 57, 58, 79, 83, 84, 102, and 103, producing such cumbrous (and then conventional) specimens as o’ th’, in ’s, i’ th’, and t’ hang.
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I shall you make relacyon By way of apostrofacyon Under supportacyon Of your pacyent tolleracyon, […]
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He was no doubt not superior to the apostrophation of his time; […]
Wiktionary03
In some cases, however, the apostrophation failed of its purpose, if its purpose were indeed the reduction of redundant syllables: […]
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