User:Fawknerfawk/Literary Chinese hapax legomena

This is a collection of Literary Chinese hapax legomena that i came across and found interesting.

Defining hapax legomena
Due to the fact that deliberate obsoletisms are not uncommon in Literary Chinese writing, especially in late Literary, i define a hapax legomenon in this context as a word that is attested only once in contemporaneous literature, unattested for at least 500 years following that, and with no or intermittent, isolated usage after that 500 years. For instance, if a word first saw use in, completely dropped off the radar for more than a thousand years, and got picked up again by some writer in , i still consider it to be a hapax legomenon. With this definition, any false hapaxes in this list is poor lexicography on my part.

N.B. are generally not included because dear god are there a lot of them. They are certainly linguistically interesting though! It's just not the focus of this collection (at least at the moment). Single characters also do not generally make the list.

駿作
to stand up quickly

逸駭
to rise abruptly

撫然
meaning uncertain; apparently delighted; pleased; satisfied

N.B. also recorded as 膴然. It is this particular sense that is a hapax; the word is otherwise attested as a variant form of.

緡緜
to take off one's clothes and cover (something) with it

N.B. this is mention instead of use, so it technically doesn't meet the attestation criterion, but it's a fun word so i'm including it here anyway.