Crossword-Solution: APOSTROPHE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Apostrophe | n. | A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost." |
| Apostrophe | n. | The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called. |
| Apostrophe | n. | The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
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greedy person
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Sentences with APOSTROPHE (5)
Then as his gaze reached out into the darkness, he murmured, half to himself: “‘Night of south winds—night of the large few stars! Still nodding night—’” She made no reply to this apostrophe to the night, which, indeed, was not addressed to her.
Her hands are in their place on the keys, her lips parted, and trilling forth, in a tender diminuendo, the closing words of the sad apostrophe: “O Love, who bewailest The frailty of all things here, Why choose you the frailest For your cradle, your home, and your bier!” Her head is forward a little, and her eyes directed keenly upward to the top of the page of music confronting her.
The question of an apostrophe was the ground of a civil action a few years ago in Switzerland; and although the anecdote refers to a manuscript, and not to a printed document, it is inserted here because it illustrates the subject.
Twice was this ghostly Jack-in-the-box obtruded on the stage before his time; twice removed again; and yet he showed so little hurry when he was really wanted, that, after an awkward pause, Macbeth had to begin his apostrophe to empty air.
What an apostrophe is that to old Crome at the end of the twenty-first chapter! _Lavengro_ is full of riches.
Quotes with APOSTROPHE (3)
To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.
Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never split an infinitive" and "The passive voice should never be used." The notion of making a mistake while laying down rules ("Thimk," "We Never Make Misteaks") is highly unoriginal, and it turns out that English teachers have been circulating lists of fumblerules for years. As owner of the world's largest collection, and with thanks to scores of readers, let me pass along a bunch of …
There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write poems, love-letters, novels and stories it seems. They whip out their Sharpies and take away and add apostrophes from public signs, shake their heads at prepositions which end sentences and mutter at split infinitives and misspellings, but do they bubble and froth and slobber and cream with joy at language? Do they ever let the tripping of the tips of their ton…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1958–2021).