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Definition of Assonates
1. assonate [v] - See also: assonate
Literary usage of Assonates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Félire Húi Gormáin: The Martyrology of Gorman, Edited from a Manuscript in by Gorman (1895)
"5, fa I assonates with Ciar. Similar rimes are found in early Italian poetry f
and in modern English the following ..."
2. The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee: Félire Óengusso Céli Dé by Whitley Stokes (1905)
"25-28, where -sa in the third line assonates with - in the second and fourth :5
or the final syllable of the third li must ..."
3. Ériu: Founded as the Journal of the School of Irish Learning Devoted to by Royal Irish Academy (1904)
"... con-cdid) in Corm. sv, because, in a quatrain there quoted (from a poem ascribed
to Ciaran, see LL. 374°3o), it assonates with ..."
4. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Thomas Rowland Powel, Donald Moore (1895)
"... vomit", for instance, might have been expected, judging by the 1 In mediaeval
Irish mace assonates now and then with words like ..."
5. Studies in the Arthurian Legend by John Rhŷs (1891)
"... genitive 1 It is also found written Etaoin and Eadaoin, as to which see
O'Curry's ed. of the Battle of Magh I.cuna, pp. 38, 52, where it assonates with ..."
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