colon-point

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colon-point

noun colon-points

obsolete Synonym of colon ⟨:⟩. Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
Similar: colon ⟨

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@misc{colon_point_2026,
  title = {colon-point},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/colon-point},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}