Ever heard of a hapax legomenon? It’s a word that appears only once in a text or even an entire language’s history—like a linguistic unicorn. Shakespeare used thousands of them, and they often carry mystery, power, or a one-time-only magic.
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For example, the word honorificabilitudinitatibus appears only once in Shakespeare’s works (in Love’s Labour’s Lost). It’s an over-the-top, playful way of saying “the state of being able to achieve honors.”
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