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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who rhymes; an inferior poet.

   "His character of Dryden, who sometimes visited him, was, that he was a good rhymist, but no poet."

Example

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"His character of Dryden, who sometimes visited him, was, that he was a good rhymist, but no poet."

Etymology

From rhyme + -ist.

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