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Definition of Rhyming
1. Adjective. Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds. "Rhyming words"
Definition of Rhyming
1. Verb. (present participle of rhyme) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rhyming
1. rhyme [v] - See also: rhyme
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhyming
Literary usage of Rhyming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"This cant, which has nothing to do with that spoken by the costermongers, is
known in Seven Dials and elsewhere as the " rhyming slang," or the substitution ..."
2. A Manual of Composition and Rhetoric: A Text-book for Schools and Colleges by John Seely Hart (1883)
"Position of the rhyming Word in the Line. — I have spoken of the place of the
... In the more formal kinds of poetry, the rhyming word is usually placed at ..."
3. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1889)
"Thus the sixtine, invented by Armand Daniel, sets out with a strophe of six lines,
none of them rhyming, and then rings the changes, not on rhymes to them, ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... while we have also such combinations of continuous rhyming metres in iambic
measure ... which when rhyming in couplets forms our so-called heroic metre; ..."
5. Games and Rhymes for Language Teaching in the First Four Grades by Alhambra Georgia Deming (1919)
"XXVI rhyming Game Simple rhymes to drill " I saw " and eliminate " I seen."
This game should follow a lesson in simple rhyming words. Teacher: I saw a cat. ..."
6. Latin Hymns: With English Notes for Use in Schools and Colleges by Francis Andrew March (1883)
"rhyming. Page 110. XXIII. Stanza of eight verses. 1, 3, dimeter, rhyming; 2, 4, 8,
... 2, 4, 6, dimeter acephalous ; 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6 rhyming. ..."
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