lower-case (notcomparable)
- Alternative spelling oflowercase
lower-case (third-person singular simple presentlower-cases,present participlelower-casing,simple past and past participlelower-cased)
- Alternative spelling oflowercase
1901 May 29, Joseph L. Hills, “Style Board”, in Charles H. Waddell, editor,The University Cynic, volume XIX, number 4, Burlington, Vt.:University of Vermont, published 1901 June 10,page71, column 2:Yet, as every rule has its exception, I have construed this dictum somewhat liberally and have as yet never failed to employ as big an A as I could command when the word American was used as an adjective, even while Ilower-cased english, mexican and foreign nations generally.
1991,Ellis Sandoz, “Editor’s Note”, inPolitical Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730–1805, Indianapolis, Ind.:LibertyPress,→ISBN,page xxix:If a capitalized word would belower-cased in modern usage, welower-cased it, but we did not capitalize any word that appearedlower-cased in the original.
1999 March 22,Esther Dyson, “Tuesday - In Between: The Architecture”, inRelease 1.0: Esther Dyson’s Monthly Report, New York, N.Y.: EDventure Holdings Inc.,→ISSN,page17:And Kevin asked me to add that we have capitalized Open Source this time, to assuage tender sensibilities, even though welower-cased it in November’s issue ofRelease 1.0.
