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apostrophations

apostrophations is the plural of apostrophation.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about apostrophations

What is apostrophations the plural of?
Apostrophations is the plural of apostrophation.

Words near apostrophations in the dictionary

  1. apostome
  2. apostomes
  3. apostosis
  4. apostrophal
  5. apostrophation
  6. apostrophations
  7. apostrophe
  8. apostrophectomies
  9. apostrophectomy
  10. apostrophed
  11. apostropheless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apostrophations (page history and authors); apostrophation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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