masculine ending

noun

1. a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
2. a stressed syllable that ends a line of verse.

masculine ending

noun

1. prosody a stressed syllable at the end of a line of verse Compare feminine ending

Example Sentences

The reader will at once be impressed with the regularity of the masculine ending.

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Note how a masculine ending in a affects the initial of the adjective as if it were a feminine.

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The three-foot line has naturally in most instances a masculine ending, but lines also occasionally occur with feminine rhyme.

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