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Definition of Repunctuation
1. punctuation [n -S] - See also: punctuation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repunctuation
Literary usage of Repunctuation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellaneous Essays by George E. Saintsbury (1892)
"... and which cannot be solved by any kind effort of repunctuation; that Milton's
sentences, beginning magnificently, often end in mere tameness, ..."
2. Miscellaneous Essays by George Saintsbury (1895)
"... and which cannot be solved by any kind effort of repunctuation ; that Milton's
sentences, beginning magnificently, often end in mere tameness, ..."
3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1895)
"Drastic reconstructions have been offered ; but repunctuation, as the order of
words suggests, and the addition of a single letter, meet every need. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society by Cambridge Philological Society (1902)
"To say that wealth is a true light, if one already knows the rewards of virtue,
is nonsense. The meaning required is obtained by repunctuation and by ..."
5. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman, George Edward Woodberry (1894)
"Between his own monomania and the usage in his day, the task of a logical
repunctuation of his literary remains is most trying, yet still more indispensable ..."
6. Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay by George Saintsbury (1885)
"... the fact that Clarendon gets himself into involutions through which no breath
will last, and which cannot be solved by any kind effort of repunctuation; ..."
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