Unrhyme

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A line of verse that does not rhyme.

    "As in Emily Dickinson there is too a fastidious precision of thought where unrhymes fill the purpose better than rhymes"

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove the rhyme or expected rhyme from.

    "a class of hackwriters arose whose job was to unrhyme the verse chronicles of the trouvere and to render them in the common speech of the day"

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"As in Emily Dickinson there is too a fastidious precision of thought where unrhymes fill the purpose better than rhymes"

Etymology

From un- + rhyme.

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