Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of gaping.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Act of gaping.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of
gaping ; agap .
Etymologies
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See hiatus.
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Examples
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It is sufficiently exhibited in the tendency to hiation, and may prove dangerous not only to yourself, but to all thy father's family. "
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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