Definition of Hyphenations

1. Noun. (plural of hyphenation) ¹

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Definition of Hyphenations

1. hyphenation [n] - See also: hyphenation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyphenations

hyphal
hyphedonia
hyphema
hyphemia
hyphemias
hyphen
hyphen-minus
hyphen-minuses
hyphenate
hyphenated
hyphenated compound
hyphenated compounds
hyphenates
hyphenating
hyphenation
hyphenations (current term)
hyphenator
hyphenators
hyphened
hyphenic
hyphening
hyphenless
hyphens
hyphomycetes
hyphomycosis
hyphopodia
hyphopodium
hyphy
hypidiomorphic
hyping

Literary usage of Hyphenations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called Shakespeare Plays by Ignatius Donnelly (1887)
"smooth-comforts-false," and " true wrongs ; " all in eight lines and all below low; so that 59 without these extraordinary hyphenations produces low; ..."

2. The Structure of Lasting Peace: An Inquiry Into the Motives of War and Peace by Horace Meyer Kallen (1918)
"Nationality is, we have seen, a hyphenation belonging to the nature of things; vocation, religion, citizenship are hyphenations created in the process of ..."

3. Modern Punctuation: Its Utilities and Conventions by George Summey (1919)
"The hyphenations and the German style of capitalization have much to do with the peculiarities of Carlyle's manner. ..."

4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations by New York Public Library (1916)
"hyphenations; a collection of articles on the world war of 1914 which have appeared from time to time in the New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung under ..."

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