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incommensurateness

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In "I Only Can Love Thee," Hawley has succeeded in conquering the incommensurateness of Mrs. Browning's sonnet by alternating 6-8 and 9-8 rhythms.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

This was not the opinion of the great English lexicographer, who describes the word as— "Odds; a noun substantive, from the adjective odd." and he defines its meaning as "inequality," or incommensurateness.

From Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 by Various