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Hiatus

noun

(pl. L. hiatus, E. hiatuses)

An interruption in the intensity or amount of something. Synonyms: abatement, reprieve, respite, suspension.

A missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript).

A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure. Synonym: foramen.

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... it will be observed that, in the midst, between the regions of Asia Minor which he evangelized during his first journey and the provinces of Greece in which he planted churches in his second journey, there was a hiatus—the populous province of Asia, in the west of Asia Minor. It was on this region that he descended in his third journey. Staying for no less than three years in Ephesus, its capital, he effectively filled up the gap and connected together ...

— The Life of St. Paul • James Stalker

... Germany has proceeded far with her construction of the Bagdad Railway, which was intended, after her absorption of Turkey, to link up Berlin with her next Oriental objective, namely, India; the Taurus has been tunnelled, the Euphrates bridged, and but for a hiatus of a few miles the line is practically complete from Constantinople into Northern Mesopotamia. But its route was chosen for German strategic reasons, for the linking up of Berlin with Constantinople and Bagdad. This, it may be ...

— Crescent and Iron Cross • E. F. Benson

... represented the third century in his library. The Carmen apologeticum, written in 259, is a collection of instructions, twisted into acrostics, in popular hexameters, with caesuras introduced according to the heroic verse style, composed without regard to quantity or hiatus and often accompanied by such rhymes as the Church Latin would later ...

— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... Rev. T. Wilson stand foremost in the rank of this mode of teaching, and the series fills a hiatus in this department of literature. They embody a vast amount of information in every branch of science, and are well worthy the attention of Schoolmasters, Pupil Teachers, ...

— Brotherly Love - Shewing That As Merely Human It May Not Always Be Depended Upon • Mrs. Sherwood

... swift review before his mental eye. Brains? Dash? Spaciousness? Initiative? All present and correct. He wondered where Sally imagined the hiatus to exist. ...

— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse

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