prosodist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of prosodist
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He was a mordant wit, a sophisticated prosodist and a devilish rhymer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Baudelaire, in spite of arduous anc meticulous polishing, was not a skilful nor always successful prosodist, and his vocabulary was comparatively small.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Let a deaf worshipper of antiquity and an English prosodist settle this."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
You—my learned prosodist and student of Browning and Shelley—will agree with me that it is not a masterpiece.
From Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang
But in time came the inevitable prosodist under the formidable name of Abu Abd al- Rahmán al-Khalíl, i.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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