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Semicolon  n.  The punctuation mark (;) indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.





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"Semicolon" Quotes from Famous Books



... omnium ac torpor; procerum connubiis mixtis nonnihil in Sarmatarum habitum foedantur." In many editions the semicolon is placed not after torpor, but after procerum. The sense of the passage so read is: "The chief men are lazy and stupid, besides being filthy, like all the rest. Intermarriage with ...
— The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus • Tacitus
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... then," said Maggie, pouting. I can say that as well as you can. And you don't mind your stops. For you ought to stop twice as long at a semicolon as you do at a comma, and you make the longest stops where there ought to be ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
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