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- noun Plural form of
majuscule .
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Examples
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Le mot anglais wasp signifie guêpe mais, quand il est écrit en majuscules, il est un acronyme : White Anglo-Saxon Protestant WASP.
Archive 2010-05-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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Reviewing a tract he wrote that was available online until yesterday, we noticed that he tends to spell the word JEW in majuscules and use it as an adjective as well as a noun, a practice straight out of the Anti-Semitic Manual of Style.
'Them Jews' 2009
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A Web site called EarthHour. org, apparently unconcerned about the carbon footprint of majuscules, urges global warmists to "VOTE EARTH BY SWITCHING OFF YOUR LIGHTS FOR ONE HOUR" starting at 8: 30 p.m. tomorrow.
Turn On, Tune In 2009
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Example sentence:My sister uses elaborate majuscules that dwarf the other letters.
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Its brevity equalled its mystery; it consisted but of five words, the first and last in imposing majuscules.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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Book and chapter headings printed wholly in majuscules.
Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name
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Sentences begin with majuscules and are separated by points
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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That original might have had one full line, or two lines, of majuscules, perhaps, following pretty closely the lines in _Π_, which has the same amount of text, plus the first three letters of SPURINNAM, in the first two lines.
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Edward Kennard Rand 1908
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Now, granted for a moment that the last of our stemmata is correct, _X_, from which _Π_ and _B_ descend, being earlier than _Π_, must have been a manuscript in majuscules, written in Italy, since that is unquestionably the provenience of _Π_.
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Edward Kennard Rand 1908
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In the section included in _Π_, apart from the general tightness of the writing, which led to the later insertion of strokes between many of the words, [35] we note these special indications of a parent manuscript in majuscules.
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Edward Kennard Rand 1908
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