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.

However, it is evident that indention carried to its full extant, useful as it is in keeping analogous things together, would make the printing of schedules complex and unwieldy.

From The Classification of Patents by United States Patent Office

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.

Write verse as verse; do not give it equal indention or length of line with prose.

From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland