special sort

noun

printing a character, such as an accented letter, that is not a usual member of any fount: Also called: peculiar, arbitrary

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How to use special sort in a sentence

Some special sort of people was, as it were, secreted in response to each special appeal.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George Wells
The Guide is, it must be recognized, a very special sort of reference work.
A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies | Archer Taylor
They are made from very fine and exquisitely prepared plates and printed on a special sort of paper.
Paul and the Printing Press | Sara Ware Bassett
They can be touched, weighed and measured; but their materiality is of a special sort whose vital reactions are as yet unknown.
Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas | Remy de Gourmont
As these examples suggest, insight is a name for a special sort and degree of knowledge.
The Sources Of Religious Insight | Josiah Royce

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