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noun (pl. hapax legomena or hapaxes) A word that appears only once in a text corpus or body of writing—be this a particular author's oeuvre, a work of substantial length, or a language's entire collection of writing, including the Twittersphere. From Ancient Greek hápax legómenon ("thing once said").
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