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interpunction|ɪntəˈpʌŋkʃən|
[ad. L. interpunctiōn-em, n. of action from interpungĕre, f. inter between + pungĕre to prick, etc.]
The insertion of points between words, clauses, or sentences; punctuation. b. concr. A point inserted in writing.
1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely To Rdr. 12 Marring and monstrifying anothers directest meaning, with his own most prodigious interpunctions. 1626Donne Serm. lxxiii. 738 We find no reason to depart from that Distinction and Interpunction of these words which our owne Church exhibits to us. 1764Phil. Trans. LIV. 425 The earlier Greeks also used the first kind of interpunction. 1894Thinker VI. 297 In regard to the vocalization and interpunction of the Hebrew text.
fig.a1640Jackson Creed xi. xxi. §2 Our life is full of interpunctions or commas: death is but the period or full point. |