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plural apostrophes
(orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts. quotations examples
Since its inception the apostrophe has been a controversial piece of punctuation.
2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 30
countable and uncountable, plural apostrophes
(rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent. quotations examples
Apostrophe a bold digression makes,Mov'd by some sudden thought the theme awakes.]
Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, page 28
The warm apostrophe of Riccardini to this little representative of his parents, whom he called "the son of his love, the child of his old age, the gift of his beloved niece, on the behalf of his angel-daughter," affected them all;...
1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 139