Follow-up Comment #5, bug #53547 (project groff):

The lack of sufficient context in the diff got me.  The situation is simpler;
it's not a "de-dent", but a normal hanging indent for which we have a standard
English term in typography.  The nonce word is still useful as a mnemonic for
the macro.  I have the following change pending.


@@ -426,7 +426,8 @@ or
 .PP
 The
 .B XP
-macro produces an exdented paragraph.
+macro produces an \(lqexdented\(rq paragraph; that is, one with a
+hanging indent.
 .
 The first line of the paragraph begins at
 the left margin,


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