pausationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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pausation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 pausations)

1. (formal) A pause, or arrangement of pauses, as in poetry.
   • 1878, James Henry, Aeneidea (page 430)

     Wagner, with more prudence than Servius, leaves the pausation, and with the pausation the cadence and symmetry of the verse, as he found it; […]

   • 1956, Kansas. State Department of Public Instruction, A Curriculum Guide for the Elementary Schools of Kansas (page 66)

     Watches the spaces between letters and words; gives special attention to pausations. The habit of beginning and ending letters correctly is more pronounced than in the previous grade.