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prosodist
[ pros-uh-dist ]
Word History and Origins
Origin of prosodist1
Example Sentences
His work was that of a grammarian, of a prosodist—in a word, that of a purist.
He was a mordant wit, a sophisticated prosodist and a devilish rhymer.
Son of a country 'squire, Etonian, Oxonian, he abandoned medicine for poetry at the age of 37 A classicist and inveterate prosodist, his appointment to succeed Laureate Alfred Austin amazed the literary world�Kipling, Yeats, Masefield, and Hardy were also regarded as candidates.
Yet Baudelaire, in spite of arduous anc meticulous polishing, was not a skilful nor always successful prosodist, and his vocabulary was comparatively small.
Only an exceptionally dexterous prosodist, such as Arnold Bennett, could have supported simultaneously the contradictory thesis that British politicians are the best in the world, and are just like you and me, and ought to be shot.
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