interrogation mark

British  

noun

1. a less common term for question mark

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interrogation mark

Rule for the Use of the Interrogation Mark.+—The interrogation mark should be used after all direct questions.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

Auntie Jinit's very figure was a living interrogation mark.

From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

If the quotation itself is a question, although it forms part of a declarative sentence, it requires an interrogation mark before the quotation mark; as, Have you been waiting long?

From Business English A Practice Book by Buhlig, Rose

He has an electric flashlight, and he tips the plane—the upper plane—forward, like he was plunging to the earth, and writes the interrogation mark on the under side with the flame of the flashlight.

From Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)

One would think the lovely Pleiades themselves came every night on a long journey to look at the board walk with an interrogation mark in every twinkle.

From See America First by Hiestand, Orville O.