"apostrophation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–32:",
          "text": "I shall you make relacyon\nBy way of apostrofacyon\nUnder supportacyon\nOf your pacyent tolleracyon, […]",
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          "ref": "1908, George Saintsbury, A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day, volume 2, page 361:",
          "text": "He was no doubt not superior to the apostrophation of his time; […]",
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        "Personal address via apostrophe (an exclamatory speech)."
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        "(rare) Personal address via apostrophe (an exclamatory speech)."
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          "ref": "1956, ed. Edward Niles Hooker, H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., The Works of John Dryden, Volume I: Poems, 1649-1680, page 174:",
          "text": "Words are run together by apostrophation in lines 21, 24, 35, 44, 57, 58, 79, 83, 84, 102, and 103, producing such cumbrous (and then conventional) specimens as o’ th’, in ’s, i’ th’, and t’ hang.",
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          "text": "The post-generator performs orthogonal operations on the target language, like contractions and apostrophations."
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        "(rare) The omission of parts of a word by means of an apostrophe (punctuation mark), contraction."
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