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单词 apostrophe
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apostrophen.1

/əˈpɒstrəfiː/
Forms: Also 1700s -phy.
Etymology: < Latin apostrophe, < Greek ἀποστροϕή, noun of action < ἀποστρέϕειν to turn away, < ἀπό away + στρέϕειν to turn, στροϕή a turning.
1. Rhetoric. A figure of speech, by which a speaker or writer suddenly stops in his or her discourse, and turns to address pointedly some person or thing, either present or absent; an exclamatory address. (As explained by Quintilian, apostrophe was directed to a person present; modern use has extended it to the absent or dead (who are for the nonce supposed to be present); but it is by no means confined to these, as sometimes erroneously stated.)
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > breaking off to make exclamatory address
apostrophationa1529
apostrophe1533
turn-tale1589
turnway1589
aversion1611
apostrophism1866
1533 T. More Apol. vii, in Wks. (1557) 859/1 With a fygure of apostrophe and turning his tale to God criyng out: O good Lorde.
1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 678 An Apostrophe, or affectionate Compellation of all that passe by to be sensibly touch't with her sorrows.
1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. xii. 272 Themistocles..accosted him in that noble apostrophe, Strike, but hear.
1830 S. T. Coleridge Lect. Shakespeare II. 118 The apostrophe to light at the commencement of the third book [of Paradise Lost] is particularly beautiful.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. iii. 65 Bursting out into wild accusing apostrophes to God and destiny.
2. Botany. The aggregation of protoplasm and chlorophyll-grains on the cell-walls adjacent to other cells, as opposed to epistrophe when they collect on the free cell-walls.
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1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 672 Apostrophe takes place under unfavourable external conditions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

apostrophen.2

/əˈpɒstrəfiː/
Forms: Also 1500s–1700s -phus.
Etymology: < French apostrophe, < Latin apostrophus, < Greek ἡ ἀπόστροϕος, prop. adjective (sc. προσῳδία the accent) ‘of turning away, or elision’.
1. The omission of one or more letters in a word. Obsolete.
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society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > omission of one or more letters in word
apostrophe1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Apostropher..to apostrophise; to cut off (by an Apostrophe) the last vowell of a word.
c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. x. §2 Apostrophus is the ejecting of a letter or a syllab out of one word or out betuene tuae.
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell vii. 91 The freedome [of Spanish] from Apostrophes, which are the knots of a Language.
2. The sign (') used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters, as in o'er, thro', can't; and as a sign of the modern English genitive or possessive case, as in boy's, boys', men's, conscience', Moses'.In the latter case, it originally marked merely the omission of e in writing, as in fox's, James's, and was equally common in the nominative plural, esp. of proper names and foreign words (as folio's = folioes); it was gradually disused in the latter, and extended to all possessives, even where e had not been previously written, as in man's, children's, conscience' sake. This was not yet established in 1725.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > omission marks
apostrophe1598
caret1710
eclipsis1727
break1733
dash1733
blank1773
ellipsis1795
tilde1959
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 120 You finde not the apostraphas, and so misse the accent. View more context for this quotation
1727 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. (ed. 13) 35 An Apostrophus (commonly, but not rightly called an Apostrophe) thus markt (')..as Th' appurtenances.
1876 C. P. Mason Eng. Gram. (ed. 21) 29 It is..an unmeaning process to put the apostrophe after the [possessive] plural s (as birds'), because no vowel has been dropped there.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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