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parenthesis-points

parenthesis-points is the plural of parenthesis-point.

Meaning of parenthesis-point

Noun

parenthesis-point (plural parenthesis-points)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of parenthesis.
    • Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9
    Synonyms:
    parenthesis

Questions about parenthesis-points

What is parenthesis-points the plural of?
Parenthesis-points is the plural of parenthesis-point.

Words near parenthesis-points in the dictionary

  1. parenthemes
  2. parenthese
  3. parentheses
  4. parenthesis
  5. parenthesis-point
  6. parenthesis-points
  7. parenthesise
  8. parenthesised
  9. parenthesises
  10. parenthesising
  11. parenthesization

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