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Quotation   /kwoʊtˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Quotation

noun
1.
A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage.  Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, mention, reference.  "The acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book" , "The article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
2.
A passage or expression that is quoted or cited.  Synonyms: citation, quote.
3.
A statement of the current market price of a security or commodity.
4.
The practice of quoting from books or plays etc..



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"Quotation" Quotes from Famous Books



... FROM VIRGINIA proceeded. Referring to a remark of Mr. Phillips on the preceding evening, in connection with a quotation from Tacitus, "that this movement was Paul against the Anglo-Saxon blood," he stood by the apostle to the Gentiles, and Mr. Phillips might stand ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
... extraneous single quote in sentence ...and answer me frankly. 'Do you really love... sentence is part of a continuing quotation ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various
... of our life upon earth? Here is a quotation from George Pelham which will tell us:[70] "Remember we always shall have our friends in the dream life, i.e., your life so to speak, which will attract us for ever and ever, and so long as we have any friends sleeping in the material world; you to us are more like ...
— Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research • Michael Sage
... Note: | | | | This children's book has a new paragraph for every sentence, | | and other unusual formatting. | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation and quotation marks in the original | | document have been preserved. | | | | A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected | | in this text. For a complete list, please see the end of | | this document. | ...
— Stories of Great Inventors - Fulton, Whitney, Morse, Cooper, Edison • Hattie E. Macomber
... but he considered it so, and gives his opinion in quotation-marks. He speaks of characters with which, his name is not always associated by writers on the stage, but is correct, I think, in ...
— How to Succeed - or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune • Orison Swett Marden


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