Meanings
nounpausation (countable and uncountable, plural pausations)
plural pausations
- countableformaluncountableA pause, or arrangement of pauses, as in poetry.
Wagner, with more prudence than Servius, leaves the pausation, and with the pausation the cadence and symmetry of the verse, as he found it; […]
1878, James Henry, Aeneidea, page 4301 more example
Watches the spaces between letters and words; gives special attention to pausations. The habit of beginning and ending letters correctly is more pronounced than in the previous grade.
1956, Kansas. State Department of Public Instruction, A Curriculum Guide for the Elementary Schools of Kansas (page 66)
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