Dactylist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A writer of dactylic verse.

    "For these following efforts, composed more or less off-the-cuff, I make no greater claim than that they serve my present purpose, which is to challenge the dogmatic anapaestists and dactylists alike."

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"For these following efforts, composed more or less off-the-cuff, I make no greater claim than that they serve my present purpose, which is to challenge the dogmatic anapaestists and dactylists alike."

Etymology

From dactyl + -ist.

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