Definition of Metricism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metricism

metrical feet
metrical foot
metrical structure
metrical structures
metrical unit
metrically
metricate
metricated
metricates
metricating
metrication
metrications
metrician
metricians
metricise
metricism (current term)
metricisms
metricity
metricize
metricized
metricizes
metricizing
metrics
metrification
metrifications
metrified
metrifies
metrifonate
metrify
metrifying

Literary usage of Metricism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1915)
"In reading it we see Mr. Joseph R. Kipling, a middle-aged British taxpayer with excellent patriotic ideas and a gift for metricism, rather than Rudyard ..."

2. Canadian Bookseller and Library Journal (1901)
"... for metricism." "For Scott and Carlyle, ' writes Mr. Crosland, " little need be said. Both, J One can only pity a man who can see no more in Burns than ..."

3. Pencraft: A Plea for the Older Ways by William Watson (1916)
"But in Milton I do not feel that anything is gained by erratic metricism when, during a passage of divine majesty and pathos, the reader suddenly comes upon ..."

4. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1866)
"... Stubbing to the rotund effectiveness of Macaulay P the precision of Rogers to the lightning flashes of Keats? or the orthodox metricism of Bowles to the ..."

5. The Spirit of American Literature by John Albert Macy (1913)
"... or they are driven to the brink of the same danger, and both triumphantly avoid falling into the abyss where poetry ceases and mere "metricism" begins. ..."

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