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Definition of Apocopes
1. apocope [n] - See also: apocope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apocopes
Literary usage of Apocopes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Étude sur le rôle de l'accent latin dans la langue française by Paris, Gaston Bruno Paulin, 1839-1903, Gaston Bruno P. Paris (1862)
"... ou apocopes qu'on a signalées (comme vesque pour evesque, a'vous pour avet-vous)
étaient d'usage commun et se trouvent dans des écrits en prose. ..."
2. Georg Rudolf Weckherlin: The Embodiment of a Transitional Stage in German by Aaron Schaffer (1918)
"To obtain this rhythmical fluency, however, Rebhun had to resort to the use of
an excessive number of syncopes and apocopes. Verse 12 of the " Vorrede " to ..."
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