apostrophic
adjEtymology From apostrophe + -ic.
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Rhetoric Pertaining to the rhetoric use of, or using, apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue).
- 7 June 1820, Lord Byron, a letter to Mr. Murray written from Ravenna Mrs. Hemans is a poet also, but too stiltified and apostrophic, […]
- The approach itself is apostrophic; or, if a more canonical term is required, it is phenomenological.1971, John Theodore Braun, The Apostrophic Gesture, page 22:
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Communications, Journalism, Literature, Media, Orthography, Publishing, Writing Pertaining to the grammatical use of, or using, the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ').
- All we need to know is that, in Shakespeare’s time, an apostrophe indicated omitted letters, which meant Hamlet could say with supreme apostrophic confidence: “Fie on’t! O fie!”; […]2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “The Tractable Apostrophe”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 38:
- Derived terms
- apostrophically