Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In rhetoric, pertaining to, resembling, or of the nature of an apostrophe.
- In grammar, pertaining to the apostrophe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to the
rhetoric use of, or using,apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue). - adjective Pertaining to the
grammatical use of, or using, the apostrophe (the diacritical mark' ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or characteristic of apostrophe
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Examples
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In one breath, he disputed her convictions about the afterlife and decried the "apostrophic" style that, now authoring
'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_ 2001
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The apostrophic utterance that He cannot be supposed to have clothed his Divinity in the body of one of a race that an American Congress would not admit to citizenship is purely emotional and without logical consequence….
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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The apostrophic utterance that He cannot be supposed to have clothed his Divinity in the body of one of a race that an American Congress would not admit to citizenship is purely emotional and without logical consequence….
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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The apostrophic utterance that He cannot be supposed to have clothed his Divinity in the body of one of a race that an American Congress would not admit to citizenship is purely emotional and without logical consequence….
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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Yet, just before, the apostrophic naming of nature — the encounter with language's primal otherness — finds so relaxed
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"O" of sheer pre-apostrophic exclamation (at the core of "Lo!" before it) appears to suggest that pure audition might — across the caesura, the epistemological gap itself — become cognition as smoothly as the phonetic ligature at "listen: O" releases the verbal alter ego of "(k) n-ow."
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Between first and third person, between grammatical interjection and descriptive projection — in other words, between the merely expressive "O (h)" and its full-blown apostrophic uptake — comes the immediate middle term of formalized address.
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The apostrophic embrace of nature's otherness in Romantic poetry would certainly not balk at such a possibility.
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But in the present apostrophic and figurative context — in a phrasing addressed to the essence of autumn, one season back — logic is eroded by a more anxious reach for visionary prognosis.
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Her mind straightway filled up the two letters concealed by apostrophic reserve, and I read in her assenting eyes that she knew Jawkins was
The Book of Snobs 2006
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