Meaning of Hiatuses | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“That many pretended cognoscenti in music are totally ignorant of such natural principles, I am convinced; for I have⟳ heard a lady play⟳ gracefully a lesson of Clementi's, who knew nothing about it, but how a man, of an investigating mind⟳, can see⟳ the black keys of a harpsichord, and observe⟳ the two hiatuses in the rows of every octave, and not ask⟳ himself why, is to me unaccountable.”

“Hiatuses or gaps in the Elohim document form⟳ an argument against its existence, in the hands of critics like⟳ Keil; but the instances of them are fewer than he supposes.”

“Thus all stratigraphic sections have⟳ undetected hiatuses at some scale.”

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