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What does hapax mean?

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Noun
  1. Abbreviation of hapax legomenon.
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Hollis Framptons' newly restroed Hapax Legomena is screening at Anthology Film Archives in New York.
Ditto for other Ancient Greek hapax legomena that got into dictionaries only because they were coined in classic works.
A significant number of Elamite terms have a single citation and are hapax legomena.
The Song has an unusually high proportion of hapax legomena, as well as rare words and constructions.
However, the two words are not only spelled differently, they are hapax legomena, and so it is not clear what the exact meaning of either word is.
After individual styles, hapax legomena and writos have been identified and isolated, the structures of the language of all writers can be researched.

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