Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A lacuna; a small empty space; a gap; a hiatus; a defect.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A lacuna.

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  • noun A lacuna.

Etymologies

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Examples

  • There is a hiatus valde deflendus; indeed, a lacune which I do not know how to fill up, and I sigh over the prospect of it perpetually, and without seeing my way out of it.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • Le parentesi quadre [ ] segnano nel testo riempiture di lacune.

    The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1919

  • There is a hiatus valde deflendus; indeed, a lacune which I do not know how to fill up, and I sigh over the prospect of it perpetually, and without seeing my way out of it.

    George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

  • Hanna (as he always calls him) appears to have volunteered to help him to fill the lacune by furnishing him with suitable Oriental stories for translation in the same style as those already rendered by him and then and there (says Galland) "told me some very fine Arabian tales, which he promised to put into writing for me."

    Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879

  • Besides for that major lacune, however, a person saying he or she is Christian, or Muslim, or

    War Is A Crime .org 2010

  • Silicon Genesis traz para o mercado a película de PV "Kerf-free" de 20 um Silicon Genesis schließt Lücke mit 20 μm dünner verschnittfreien Photovoltaik-Folie Silicon Genesis comble une lacune avec la feuille PV « sans traits de scie » de 20 µm

    unknown title 2009

  • Certain lacune in system leading to corruption: Pranab Mukherjee on Koda - Indlaw. com intellibitz Pranab and co. cut cake on Sonia Gandhi's birthday -

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • _lacune_, and the grandmother felt that the result of the three years 'claustration in nowise corresponded to its expense.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

  • #news intellibitz Certain lacune in system leading to corruption:

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • 02/08/2010 10: 25 Strage Bologna: Napolitano, si colmino lacune e ambiguita 'su trame

    ITnews 2010

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