masculine ending
Americannoun
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a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
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a stressed syllable that ends a line of verse.
noun
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It defaults to the masculine ending when referencing a noun related to males and females in one group.
From Washington Times • Dec. 12, 2021
It defaults to the masculine ending when referencing a noun related to both males and females in one group.
From Washington Times • Dec. 7, 2021
A line has a masculine ending when its last syllable is stressed; when it ends, for example, on words or phrases like behold', control', no more', begone'.
From An Introduction to Shakespeare by MacCracken, H. N.
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