Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Hapax legomenon

Hapax legomenon is a word that occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to describe a word that occurs in just one of an author's works.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon

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