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long measure
noun
- Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of long measure1
First recorded in 1710–20
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Example Sentences
It was a long measure of more than fifty sections, carefully planned and skillfully drawn.
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Our weights are even more distracting than our long measure.
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That rest which he would not give himself when his sensations prompted he has now to take in long measure.
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That rest which he would not give himself when his sensations prompted, he has now to take in long measure.
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Richardson and Smollett and Fielding gave them a plenty of long-measure novels.
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