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apostrophisation

apostrophisation is the alternative spelling of apostrophization.

Meaning of apostrophization

Noun

apostrophization (countable and uncountable, plural apostrophizations)

  1. The use of apostrophe characters.
    • An open letter penned by two prominent French intellectuals, Michèle Cohen-Halimi and Francis Cohen, called into question the curious apostrophization of the word, “‘Jews,’”—a diacritical practice that, in previous cases, has yielded to dubious interpretive license, signaling that “figural” rather...2015 August 25, Richard Wolin, Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse, Princeton University Press, →ISBN
  2. The use of an apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).

Forms of apostrophisation

pluralapostrophisations

Words that rhyme with apostrophisation

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Questions about apostrophisation

What is apostrophisation the alternative spelling of?
Apostrophisation is the alternative spelling of apostrophization.

Words near apostrophisation in the dictionary

  1. apostrophi
  2. apostrophic
  3. apostrophically
  4. apostrophied
  5. apostrophies
  6. apostrophisation
  7. apostrophisations
  8. apostrophise
  9. apostrophised
  10. apostrophises
  11. apostrophising

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