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Quotation   /kwoʊtˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Quotation  n.  
1.
The act of quoting or citing.
2.
That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.
3.
(Com.) The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also, the price named.
4.
Quota; share. (Obs.)
5.
(Print.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.
Quotation marks (Print.), two inverted commas placed at the beginning, and two apostrophes at the end, of a passage quoted from an author in his own words.





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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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