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‖ hapax legomenon|ˈhæpæks lɪˈgɒmənɒn|
Pl. hapax legomena. Also simply hapax.
[Gr. ἅπαξ λεγόµενον (thing) once said.]
A word or form of which only one instance is recorded in a literature or an author.
[1654J. Trapp Minor Prophets 605 'Tis ἄπαξ λεγόµενον read only here: and hence this variety of interpretations. 1801W. Magee Atonement & Sacrifice 336 [The book of Job's] very great antiquity, and uncommon sublimity of elevation, which has occasioned a greater number of απαξ λεγοµενα, and expressions difficult to be understood. ]1882Farrar Early Chr. I. xi. 236 The number of the hapax legomena is remarkable, and some of them are full of picturesqueness. 1931English Studies XIII. 124 An article that should certainly find a place in a miscellany in honour of the brave defender of Wulfila as a translator: Collitz on two hapax legomena in Wulfila's translation. 1956J. Whatmough Poetic, Scientific & other Forms of Discourse ii. 37 The hapax legomenon, although statistically it hardly differs from a word of very low occurrence..is nevertheless anomalous, just like the scazon in Greek comedy. 1957C. Brooke-Rose Langs. Love iv. 34 She saw herself go through the minutiæ of scansion, dialect forms, emendation, haplography, hapax legomena and anacolutha in Beowulf. 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 54 He..rejects a Middle English hapax as a genuine idiom unless he can trace it back to an Old Norse..word. |
