highlit
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]highlit
- (uncommon) simple past and past participle of highlight; highlighted.
- 1967, Alexander C. Soper, “A pictorial biography of Prince Shotoku”, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin:
- The potential precariousness of the alliance is highlit by the catastrophe of its abrupt ending in the next generation, after the deaths of the two principals.
- 1998, Charles Townshend, “The meaning of Irish freedom constitutionalism in the Free State”, in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society:
- I want to focus on an aspect highlit by Denis Donoghue when he reviewed it in the London Review of Books.
Usage notes
[edit]- Used with less than three percent of the frequency of "highlighted" in books.
- Sometimes used as an example of a misconstruction in books on language learning.