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What does apostrophic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (rhetoric) Pertaining to the rhetoric use of, or using, apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue).
  2. (orthography) Pertaining to the grammatical use of, or using, the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ').
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He remembered the apostrophic close of a novel in which the heroine dies after much emotional suffering.
Last week, we asked for new punctuation marks, and in a short period of time, readers dashed off so many good ideas that we were moved to apostrophic praise.
Starting with Part I, we will find that Susan's island account is produced under the weight of apostrophic address.
It is animated by both contempt for others and apostrophic self-contempt.
This third-person narration recounts a meeting of the now mutually passionate lovers, and leads to an apostrophic address by Astrophil.

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