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Ellipsis

noun
(pl. ellipses)
1.
Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences.  Synonym: eclipsis.





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"Ellipsis" Quotes from Famous Books



... or more compounds are connected in one sentence, none of them should be split to make an ellipsis of half a word. Thus, "six or seventeen" should not be said for "sixteen or seventeen;" nor ought we to say, "calf, goat, and sheepskins" for "calfskins, goatskins, and sheepskins" In the latter instance, however, it might be right to separate all the words; as in the phrase, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
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... his friendly attitude, tells the story of her intrigue, in lines justly regarded as the most beautiful ever written in verse. The reader will not fail to observe that the fatal denouement is only hinted, not told—the line, "that day we read no more," making what is admitted to be the finest ellipsis in all the ...
— Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" • John T. Slattery
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Words linked to "Ellipsis" :   deletion, omission


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