Definition of Punctuating

1. Verb. (present participle of punctuate) ¹

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Definition of Punctuating

1. punctuate [v] - See also: punctuate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Punctuating

punctists
puncto
punctos
punctual
punctualist
punctualists
punctualities
punctuality
punctuall
punctually
punctualness
punctuate
punctuated
punctuated equilibrium
punctuates
punctuating (current term)
punctuation
punctuation mark
punctuation marks
punctuation space
punctuational
punctuationism
punctuationist
punctuationists
punctuationless
punctuations
punctuative
punctuator
punctuators
punctuist

Literary usage of Punctuating

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

1. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"X.— Observations o/* the correct method of punctuating a line in " Hamlet" act »'., *c. ... punctuating."

2. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1844)
"X. — Observations on the correct method of punctuating a line in "Hamlet" act i., sc. 2, with reference to the exact force of the word ..."

3. An Introduction to the Scientific Study of English Poetry: Being Prolegomena by Mark Harvey Liddell (1902)
"And we should expect to find the punctuating systems of Germanic poetry ... And we do find that the aesthetic forms of punctuating thought-moments in ..."

4. An Introduction to the Scientific Study of English Poetry: Being Prolegomena by Mark Harvey Liddell (1902)
"It is the punctuating material which divides the thought-moments into varying rhythm figures of ever changing beauty and harmony, ..."

5. Junior High School English by Thomas Henry Briggs (1921)
"EXERCISE 4 RECOGNIZING AND punctuating APPOSITIVE PHRASES AND WORDS In the sentence " Our dog, a valuable white collie, was stolen yesterday " what phrase ..."

6. Junior High School English by Thomas Henry Briggs, Isabel McKinney, Florence Vane Skeffington (1921)
"... it is a tiny creature with a soft skin over most of its body but with a rather firm covering for its head. EXERCISE 4 RECOGNIZING AND punctuating ..."

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