apostrophation

Noun

apostrophation (countable and uncountable, plural apostrophations)

1. (rare) Personal address via apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).
   • I shall you make relacyon
     By way of apostrofacyon
     Under supportacyon
     Of your pacyent tolleracyon, […]c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–32
   • He was no doubt not superior to the apostrophation of his time; […]1908, George Saintsbury, A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day, volume 2, page 361
2. (rare) The omission of parts of a word by means of an apostrophe (punctuation mark), contraction.
   • In some cases, however, the apostrophation failed of its purpose, if its purpose were indeed the reduction of redundant syllables: […]1928, Johannes C. Andersen, The Laws of Verse, page 110
   • Words are run together by apostrophation in lines 21, 24, 35, 44, 57, 58, 79, 83, 84, 102, and 103, producing such cumbrous (and then conventional) specimens as o’ th’, in ’s, i’ th’, and t’ hang.1956, ed. Edward Niles Hooker; H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., The Works of John Dryden, Volume I: Poems, 1649-1680, page 174