HIATUS

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.

2.
n.

The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables. Pope.


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