ELLIPSIS

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.

2.
n.

An ellipse. [Obs.]


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