apostrophation

plural apostrophations

1. countablerareuncountablePersonal address via apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).

   He was no doubt not superior to the apostrophation of his time; […]

   1908, George Saintsbury, A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day, volume 2, page 361

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   I shall you make relacyon By way of apostrofacyon Under supportacyon Of your pacyent tolleracyon, […]

   c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–32

2. countablerareuncountableThe omission of parts of a word by means of an apostrophe (punctuation mark), contraction.

   The post-generator performs orthogonal operations on the target language, like contractions and apostrophations.

   2015 March, Siddhartha Ghosh, Aditi Ghotikar, and Soujanya Chaturvedula, “Natural Language Processing: A Machine Translation System for Indian Languages” in International Journal of Combined Research & Development (IJCRD), volume 4, issue 3, page 64

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   In some cases, however, the apostrophation failed of its purpose, if its purpose were indeed the reduction of redundant syllables: […]

   1928, Johannes C. Andersen, The Laws of Verse, page 110

   Words are run together by apostrophation in lines 21, 24, 35, 44, 57, 58, 79, 83, 84, 102, and 103, producing such cumbrous (and then conventional) specimens as o’ th’, in ’s, i’ th’, and t’ hang.

   1956, ed. Edward Niles Hooker; H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., The Works of John Dryden, Volume I: Poems, 1649-1680, page 174