long measure

noun

1. Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
2. linear measure.

long measure

noun

1. See linear measure
   another name for linear measure

Word History and Origins

Origin of long measure¹

First recorded in 1710–20

Example Sentences

It was a long measure of more than fifty sections, carefully planned and skillfully drawn.

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Our weights are even more distracting than our long measure.

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That rest which he would not give himself when his sensations prompted he has now to take in long measure.

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That rest which he would not give himself when his sensations prompted, he has now to take in long measure.

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Richardson and Smollett and Fielding gave them a plenty of long-measure novels.

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