Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A note, mark, or sign (?) placed after a question (or in Spanish both before and after it, in the former position inverted) in writing or printing.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
interrogation point .
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Examples
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Charles Reade makes an exclamation -- and an interrogation-point together say as much as many novelists can dibble over a whole page.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various
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At Mr. Le Moyne's house there boarded a walking interrogation-point of a woman.
Stage Confidences Clara Morris
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"And crook the begging hinges of the knee"; but, doubtful as to this at first, (for we regard the interrogation-point as a query to himself, and not as indicating the insertion of that point after "Dost thou hear,") he finally came to the conclusion, that, although he, and many a respectable poet, might have written "begging" in this passage, Shakespeare was just the man to write
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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A LIVING interrogation-point and a born investigator from childhood, Edison has never been without a laboratory of some kind for upward of half a century.
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A LIVING interrogation-point and a born investigator from childhood,
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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Each star that blinked down at him as he rode in answer to a night-call seemed an interrogation-point asking, How do I exist?
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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The captain came onto his tiptoes in order to elongate himself as a human interrogation-point.
All-Wool Morrison Holman Day 1900
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Theodore on one side -- standing there like a tall interrogation-point -- I honestly believe I can defy Mr. Sloane on the other.
Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 Henry James 1879
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My mother sometimes called me "an animated interrogation-point."
When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood Marion Harland 1876
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There was an eternal query, – an habitual interrogation-point to almost every proposition in my mind, even from childhood, – a habit of looking at everything from so many sides, that it was difficult to get a settled assent to anything.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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