Dagger (mark)
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title:
Dagger (mark)
text:
A dagger, obelisk, or obelus † is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. The symbol is also used to indicate death or extinction. It is one of the modern descendants of the obelus, a mark used historically by scholars as a critical or highlighting indicator in manuscripts. In older texts, it is called an obelisk. A double dagger, or diesis, ‡ is a variant with two hilts and crossguards that usually marks a third footnote after the asterisk an
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Symbol († ‡) for footnotes etc
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_(mark)
date created:
2002-06-24T09:45:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T22:17:51Z
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