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Apocope (Uh-pah-kuh-pee)
For Apocope (Uh-pah-kuh-pee) we have a term and definition in Poetry.
Apocope (Uh-pah-kuh-pee) (Poetry) 
A type of elision in which a letter or syllable is omitted at the end of a word, as in morn for morning.
(Compare Aphaeresis, Syncope, Synaeresis, Synaloepha)
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