hapax legomenon in English
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1
a term of which only one instance of use is recorded.
In philology a hapax legomenon is almost always a word and is a problem because a single usage doesn't generally give us enough information to figure out what it means.
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1. In the opinion of Constantin Floros there are two passages in the adagio in the sense of a hapax legomena passages, which appear only once and "do not recur in the further course of the sentence.