hapaxes

/ˈhæpəksiz/
noun
  1. Words that appear only once in a given text, corpus, or an author's works.
    • The scholar studied the hapaxes in Shakespeare's plays to understand rare vocabulary.
    • In the ancient manuscript, several hapaxes puzzled the linguists.
    • The poem contained many hapaxes, making it difficult to translate.
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