highlit

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Verb

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highlit

  1. (uncommon) simple past and past participle of highlight; highlighted.
    • 1967, Alexander C. Soper, “A pictorial biography of Prince Shotoku”, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin:
      The potential precariousness of the alliance is highlit by the catastrophe of its abrupt ending in the next generation, after the deaths of the two principals.
    • 1998, Charles Townshend, “The meaning of Irish freedom constitutionalism in the Free State”, in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society:
      I want to focus on an aspect highlit by Denis Donoghue when he reviewed it in the London Review of Books.

Usage notes

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  • Used with less than three percent of the frequency of "highlighted" in books.
  • Sometimes used as an example of a misconstruction in books on language learning.