Word: hapax
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...semantics of President Kennedy's proposed Disarmament Agency, up for consideration at a time when popular sentiment is more belliferous than pacific, changed the name, in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, to the United States Arms Control Agency. The stuffier Senate had already chosen a somewhat longer hapax legomenon, the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for World Peace and Security...
...mistake. It arises from the second of two noteworthy features of the play's language: (1) no other of the Bard's works contains such a high percentage of words or forms that occur only once in the author's entire output (these go under the technical name of hapax legomena); (2) no other of his works contains so large a proportion of lines that are susceptible of multiple readings, sometimes even to the point of totally reversing the meaning...
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