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Definition of Mellifluousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mellifluousness
Literary usage of Mellifluousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literary Reviews and Criticisms by Prosser Hall Frye (1908)
"The mellifluousness of Dryden and his followers is ... of composition in which
words are treated rather as notes than ideas.1 But for that mellifluousness, ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"The versification of the poem is a mixture of Byron's style in Lara and The Giaour
with the easy mellifluousness of Moore's own Irish Melodies. ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... is in mere mellifluousness equal to anything which has been produced in blank
verse since.—COLLINS, JOHN CHURTON, 1895, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The deliberate mellifluousness of Mr. Myers occasionally jarj upon us in the more
impassioned outbursts, and produces ..."
5. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"Swinburne carried the prosody of the romantic age to its extreme point of
mellifluousness, and he introduced into it a quality of speed, of throbbing ..."
6. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"said Martha, with the tender mellifluousness of sisterly reproach. 'What good
can you expect of letting temper get the better of you, dear? ..."
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