punctuative

Variant of punctuation

noun

  1. the act of punctuating; specif., the act or practice of using standardized marks in writing and printing to separate sentences or sentence elements or to make the meaning clearer
  2. a system for using such marks
  3. such a mark or marks

Origin: ML punctuatio: see punctuate

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