coronis
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
coronis (plural coronides)
- A device, curved stroke, or flourish formed with a pen, coming at the end of a book or chapter; a colophon. For example: ⸎, ۞.
- (figuratively, obsolete, rare) A thing’s conclusion; its end.
- 1592–1670: Bishop John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offer’d to the great Deservings of John Williams, D.D., Archbishop of York, volume 2, page 38
- The coronis of this matter is thus ; some bad ones in this family were punish’d strictly, all rebuk’d, not all amended.
- 1592–1670: Bishop John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offer’d to the great Deservings of John Williams, D.D., Archbishop of York, volume 2, page 38
- (Ancient Greek grammar) A character similar to an apostrophe or the smooth breathing written atop or next to a non–word-initial vowel retained from the second word which formed a contraction resulting from crasis; see the usage note.
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