What does hapax mean?

hapax

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English

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"Never build a doctrine on or draw a teaching from an unclear or debated hapax."
"He includes tables which give the number and frequency of hapaxes in each Book, ..."
"Most of the hapaxes featuring -ify and -ize are phonologically and semantically transparent, which indicates their status as productive formations."
"There are 19000-odd words in his gospel, and 971 of these are hapaxes: there are 18000-odd words in Acts, and 943 are hapaxes."

hapaxes (plural)

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