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spondee |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Spondee \Spon"dee\, n. [L. spondeus Gr ? (sc. ?), fr ? a drink offering, libation, fr ? to pour out make a libation: cf F. spond['e]e. So called because at libations slow, solemn melodies were used chiefly in this meter.] (pros.) A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word l[=e]g[=e]s. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: spondee n : a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
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