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Hapax

Noun:

1. (Linguistics) A word that occurs only once within a text or corpus.
2. (Literature) A unique or rare word used only by a specific author.

Example sentences:

1. The word "floccinaucinihilipilification" is a famous hapax in English literature.
2. The researcher analyzed the text corpus and identified numerous hapaxes within it.

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