What does pausation mean?

pausation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Countable; Formal; Uncountable

"Wagner, with more prudence than Servius, leaves the pausation, and with the pausation the cadence and symmetry of the verse, as he found it; […]"
"Watches the spaces between letters and words; gives special attention to pausations. The habit of beginning and ending letters correctly is more pronounced than in the previous grade."

pausations (plural)

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