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- noun informal Abbreviation of
hapax legomenon .
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The term hapax legomenon), and could mean a lost species of tree, an antediluvian composite, or a lost art of producing wood for shipbuilding.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010
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The term hapax legomenon), and could mean a lost species of tree, an antediluvian composite, or a lost art of producing wood for shipbuilding.
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The term hapax legomenon), and could mean a lost species of tree, an antediluvian composite, or a lost art of producing wood for shipbuilding.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Coltlaw 2009
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The term hapax legomenon), and could mean a lost species of tree, an antediluvian composite, or a lost art of producing wood for shipbuilding.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Stosselistic 2009
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The term hapax legomenon), and could mean a lost species of tree, an antediluvian composite, or a lost art of producing wood for shipbuilding.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] PeterF 2009
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In fact, the phrase pledge allegiance is what linguists call a hapax legomenon, or hapax for short an expression that only occurs in a single place in the language, like wardrobe malfunction, Corinthian leather, or satisfactual.
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A hapax was a word that only ever appeared once - in a language or a body of writing.
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A hapax was a word that only ever appeared once - in a language or a body of writing.
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An exhaustive search of databases and legal tomes reveals that we have here what the Greeks called a hapax legomenon—a word of which only one use is recorded in all literature.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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This qualifies as what biblical exegetes call a hapax legomenon, the only known use in print, which makes it difficult to define.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
jkcohen commented on the word hapax
A hapax is a word that occurs only once in the corpus of a language.
"Chaucer's words are obscure, but only 'kankerdort' is a hapax."
June 27, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word hapax
"To watch an actor in profile is a special pleasure for the connoisseur, all the more so when that actor is unknown, unexpected—and perhaps acting for the first and last time. Such an actor is, as Flavy would later remark, a hapax of the stage."
Upstaged by Jacques Jouet, translated by Leland de la Durantaye, p 18
September 9, 2011