"sexasyllabic" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Etymology: From sexa- + syllabic. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|sexa|syllabic}} sexa- + syllabic Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} sexasyllabic (not comparable)
  1. Alternative form of sexisyllabic Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: sexisyllabic
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          "text": "The latter clause, however, relieves the dilemma in which I should otherwise find myself involved; for I was far from attempting the performance of what the witty Dean Swift once coined a sexasyllabic word for, viz.: ‘sermonification.’",
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          "ref": "1914, M[orilla] M[aria] Norton, Builders of a Nation: A Series of Biographical Sketches, Manila, page 65:",
          "text": "The rhyme and especially the rhythm are entirely different from those of the twelve-syllable Spanish verse; the rhythm is unisonous with the kumintang, a purely Tagalog musical air which is generally used as accompaniment to these dodecasyllabic verses and has a sexasyllabic movement, similar to the monorhythmic romancerillo of six syllables.",
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          "ref": "1974, Camille Naish, Dual Structures in the Poetry and Prose of Jean Genet: A Genetic Approach, page 52:",
          "text": "A syntactical tightness combined with themes Valerian (and Cocteaue sque) make feasible the following comparison between Genet's sexasyllabic lines and a quatrain from Valéry's A l'aurore[…]",
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          "ref": "1986, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., editor, The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, volume I, Bloomington, Ind., Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 739, column 1:",
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          "ref": "2007, Stuart H. Sargent, The Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1125): Genres, Contexts, and Creativity, Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 475:",
          "text": "(Remarks on sexametric quatrains—with comments on the origin, flourishing, and withering of the sexasyllabic line).",
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