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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

full-point en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of full stop or period ⟨.⟩.
    • Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century. 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:

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full-points Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

full stop or period