apostrophic

Variant of apostrophe

noun

words addressed to a person or thing, whether absent or present, generally in an exclamatory digression in a speech or literary writing

Origin: L < Gr apostrophē, a turning away from the audience to address one person < apostrephein < apo-, from + strephein, to turn: see strophe

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