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Definition of Indentions
1. indention [n] - See also: indention
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indentions
Literary usage of Indentions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A First Manual of Composition: Designed for Use in the Highest Grammar Grade by Edwin Herbert Lewis (1899)
"To copy a dialogue correctly, using indentions and quotation marks. ... Copy the
following dialogue, taking care to get the indentions right (see pages 7-8) ..."
2. Composition-rhetoric by Fred Newton Scott (1898)
"Faults of Indention: Indentions too Few. 1. In a preceding paper I have spoken
of an English Sunday in the country, and its tranquillizing effect upon the ..."
3. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress edited by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1826)
"Indentions. Spining Machines. AN improvement in spinning flax, cotton, wool, and
silk, is about to be introduced by Mr. Molineux, of Stoke, in Somersetshire ..."
4. The London Journal of Arts and Sciences by William Newton (1821)
"Nobel Indentions. Snowden's Leaf collecting Machine. A machine of rather a novel
description, has been recently constructed by Mr. Snowden of Oxford-street, ..."
5. Vocational Printing by Ralph W. Polk (1918)
"CHAPTER IX Indentions Indention is the setting in of a line or lines for the
purpose of calling attention to a change in thought or subject, or for emphasis ..."
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