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Hiatus

noun

(pl. L. hiatus, E. hiatuses)

An interruption in the intensity or amount of something. Synonyms: abatement, reprieve, respite, suspension.

A missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript).

A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure. Synonym: foramen.

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"Hiatus" Quotes from Famous Books

... insurance to be contrary to their honor, unless they contribute something toward it. For this reason we have left the first four weeks uninsured. I am not certain on this point, but if another solution seems better, I believe that the law should cover also this hiatus. There is no ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... hiatus. Washington watched every move on the board, and he was in a good position to do this, for he was clerk of this committee, and also one other. He received no salary as private secretary, but these two clerkships, procured by his benefactor, paid him an aggregate ...

— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... surmised that he had here forgotten some connecting link which should have joined without abruptness the declaration of his own love, and his social view as to the general expediency of matrimony. But Dorothy did not discover the hiatus. ...

— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope

... self-respect which consign them to oblivion. Nor shall we endeavor to lift the veil which she has thus thrown over the most intimate portion of her private life. We will not ask any Chronique Scandaleuse, of which there are plenty, to supply any hiatus in the dramatis personae of her life. We shall take her as she gives herself to us, bringing out the full significance of what she says, but not interpolating with it what other people say. For she has been generous in telling us all that it imports us most to know. ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 49, November, 1861 • Various

... vastos telluris hiatus Divinam spirare fidem, ventosque loquaces Exhalare solum, sacris se condidit antris, Incubuitque ...

— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant

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