interrogative-point

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Noun

interrogative-point

1. (typography, obsolete) Synonym of question mark#English|question mark ⟨?⟩.
   • 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation ↗, page 9 ↗:

     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.

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