dissyllable
Americannoun
noun
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- dissyllabic adjective
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Of course, Webster allows that it was "formerly often" a dissyllable, and Shakespeare found it handier thus six times out of seven.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where we are rightly told that ‘year’ may be a dissyllable.
From The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising by Clark, William George
He seems," says Dennis, "to have been the very original of our English tragical harmony, that is, the harmony of blank verse, diversified often by dissyllable and trisyllable terminations.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel
There are twenty-two monosyllables to three of greater length, or rather to the same dissyllable thrice repeated; and that too in common parlance proncounced as a monosyllable.
From Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 by Various
In stanza 1, line 2, the trisyllabic word "violets" appears as a dissyllable.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
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