Meaning of pausation | Babel Free

Definitions

A pause, or arrangement of pauses, as in poetry.

countable, formal, uncountable

Examples

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

“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.”

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