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Definition of Alliterating
1. alliterate [v] - See also: alliterate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alliterating
Literary usage of Alliterating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alliteration in Spenser's Poetry Discussed and Compared with the by Virginia Eviline Spencer (1898)
"An alliterating adjective or adverb is often placed at the beginning of a verse,
... In a few instances an alliterating substantive is placed at the ..."
2. Alliteration in the Chanson de Roland and in the Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis by Alexander Haggerty Krappe (1921)
"contained two alliterating words each. In a few instances it was found necessary
to mention the same alliteration twice: when two alliterating words making ..."
3. On Anglo-Saxon Versification from the Standpoint of Modern-English Versification by Edwin Boinest Setzler (1904)
"Also a single example of the second foot only in each half, alliterating : rafte
... Again we have both feet in the first-half alliterating with the second ..."
4. The Proverbs of Alfred by Alfred (1907)
"alliterating long lines that observe, more or less strictly, ... alliterating lines.
(All the examples are from Text A.) These are of four kinds. ..."
5. Félire Húi Gormáin: The Martyrology of Gorman, Edited from a Manuscript in by Gorman (1895)
"So in July iQ,rtu should be friu, alliterating with (Ru)/ina, and in Nov. ...
Gorman's practice as to alliterating groups of consonants is as follows: bl ..."
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