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Definition of Hyphens

1. hyphen [v] - See also: hyphen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyphens

Literary usage of Hyphens

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

1. Technical Writing by Thomas Arthur Rickard (1920)
"hyphens are unlovely assistants, regrettable necessities, but without them ... This is said, and said clearly, by inserting two hyphens thus: "High-speed ..."

2. Elementary English Spoken and Written by Lamont Foster Hodge, Arthur Lee (1922)
"DIVIDING WORDS; hyphens Sometimes in writing we find that we must divide a ... hyphens are used also between the words that make up a compound word; as, ..."

3. The King's English by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1906)
"hyphens We return here to our usual practice of disregarding everything not necessary ... hyphens are regrettable necessities, and to be done without when ..."

4. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"Young Trollope complains that you employ hyphens too largely. I quote the criticism pour votre gouverne. Now goodnight, my dear friend; I do but chat to ..."

5. Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford by Oxford University Press, Horace Hart, James Augustus Henry Murray, Henry Bradley (1905)
"hyphens' The hyphen need not, as a rule, he used to join an adverb to the adjective which it qualifies: as in— a beautifully furnished house, ..."

6. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"Young Trollope complains that you employ hyphens too largely. I quote the criticism pour votre gouverne. Now goodnight, my dear friend; I do but chat to ..."

7. Extracts from the Style Book of the Government Printing Office by Geological Survey (U.S., United States Government Printing Office, Government Printing Office, George McLane Wood, Geological Survey (U.S.), United States (1915)
"Most compound adjectives that precede the nouns qualified take hyphens, ... Omit hyphens if the first word of the compound adjective is qualified by another ..."

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