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Definition of Alliterative
1. Adjective. Having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable. "Alliterative verse"
Definition of Alliterative
1. a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry.
Definition of Alliterative
1. Adjective. In the form or style of alliteration. ¹
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Definition of Alliterative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alliterative
Literary usage of Alliterative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1906)
"CHAPTER II alliterative ROMANCE AND THE alliterative REVIVAL GENERALLY The ...
With the other or alliterative division, as with the whole body of ..."
2. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"The most remarkable of all English alliterative poems later than Anglo-Saxon ...
The most intrinsically interesting examples of alliterative Romance' 1 The ..."
3. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400 by John Edwin Wells (1916)
"Works in alliterative Long Lines After the Norman Conquest, the Old English
alliterative measure gave way before the French and the Latin verse forms. ..."
4. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"SECTION X. Various specimens of alliterative poetry. ... It alliterative Romance
of Alexander, which Ashmole 44. and its commencement cor- supposed, ..."
5. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"THE following is an extract from a poem in the Swedish, written according to the
alliterative system of the old Norse literature. ..."
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