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masculine ending
noun
- a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
- a stressed syllable that ends a line of verse.
masculine ending
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Example Sentences
The reader will at once be impressed with the regularity of the masculine ending.
From Project Gutenberg
Note how a masculine ending in a affects the initial of the adjective as if it were a feminine.
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The three-foot line has naturally in most instances a masculine ending, but lines also occasionally occur with feminine rhyme.
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