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  • noun Plural form of aposiopesis.

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  • The whole plot of the Ciris is in fact unravelled by means of a series of allusions and suggestions, exclamations and soliloquies, parentheses and aposiopeses, interrogations and apostrophes.

    Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

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