pausation
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[edit]Noun
[edit]pausation (countable and uncountable, plural pausations)
- (formal) A pause, or arrangement of pauses, as in poetry.
- 1878, James Henry, Aeneidea, page 430:
- Wagner, with more prudence than Servius, leaves the pausation, and with the pausation the cadence and symmetry of the verse, as he found it; […]
- 1956, Kansas. State Department of Public Instruction, A Curriculum Guide for the Elementary Schools of Kansas (page 66)
- Watches the spaces between letters and words; gives special attention to pausations. The habit of beginning and ending letters correctly is more pronounced than in the previous grade.