apostrophation

English

Noun

apostrophation (countable and uncountable, plural apostrophations)

1. (rare) Personal address via apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–32:

     I shall you make relacyon
     By way of apostrofacyon
     Under supportacyon
     Of your pacyent tolleracyon, […]

   • 1908, George Saintsbury, A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day, volume 2, page 361:

     He was no doubt not superior to the apostrophation of his time; […]

2. (rare) The omission of parts of a word by means of an apostrophe (punctuation mark), contraction.
   • 1928, Johannes C. Andersen, The Laws of Verse, page 110:

     In some cases, however, the apostrophation failed of its purpose, if its purpose were indeed the reduction of redundant syllables: […]

   • 1956, ed. Edward Niles Hooker, H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., The Works of John Dryden, Volume I: Poems, 1649-1680, page 174:

     Words are run together by apostrophation in lines 21, 24, 35, 44, 57, 58, 79, 83, 84, 102, and 103, producing such cumbrous (and then conventional) specimens as o’ th’, in ’s, i’ th’, and t’ hang.

   • 2015 March, Siddhartha Ghosh, Aditi Ghotikar, and Soujanya Chaturvedula, “Natural Language Processing: A Machine Translation System for Indian Languages” in International Journal of Combined Research & Development (IJCRD), volume 4, issue 3, page 64:

     The post-generator performs orthogonal operations on the target language, like contractions and apostrophations.