plain point

noun

plain point

noun

1

Media, Publishing, Typography Obsolete Synonym of full stop or period ⟨.⟩.

There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative.1824, J. Johnson, Typographia:

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