apostrophization

plural apostrophizations · alternative uncommon apostrophisation

1. countableuncountableThe use of apostrophe characters.

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   An open letter penned by two prominent French intellectuals, Michèle Cohen-Halimi and Francis Cohen, called into question the curious apostrophization of the word, “‘Jews,’”—a diacritical practice that, in previous cases, has yielded to dubious interpretive license, signaling that “figural” rather than “real” Jews were at issue.

   2015 August 25, Richard Wolin, Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

2. countableuncountableThe use of an apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).