indention

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But a wrong letter, a space in the wrong place, a wrong indention, a wrong punctuation mark, was an error that cost a ten "word" penalty against the total score.

From Time Magazine Archive

The left-hand margin should be three-quarters of an inch, with paragraph indention an inch more.

From The Etiquette of To-day by Ordway, Edith B.

This indention of the margin and the incomplete line at the end mark the visible limits of the paragraph.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

There was a little indention here—a tiny cove.

From Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Emerson, Alice B.

The indention at the beginning, and usually the incomplete line at the end, mark its visible limits.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)