apostrophization

• apostrophisation (less common)

apostrophize +‎ -ation

apostrophization (countable and uncountable, plural apostrophizations)

1. The use of apostrophe characters.
   • 2015 August 25, Richard Wolin, Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse‎, Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

     An open letter penned by two prominent French intellectuals, Michèle Cohen-Halimi and Francis Cohen, called into question the curious apostrophization of the word, “‘Jews,’”—a diacritical practice that, in previous cases, has yielded to dubious interpretive license, signaling that “figural” rather than “real” Jews were at issue.

2. The use of an apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).