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ENJAMBEMENT

• ENJAMBEMENT (noun)
The noun ENJAMBEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause

Familiarity information: ENJAMBEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

• ENJAMBEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

enjambement; enjambment

Hypernyms ("enjambement" is a kind of...):

inflection; prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)

"Don't use your hairdryer in the shower, you prat"
(English proverb)
"Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed."
(Native American proverb, tribe unknown)
"The forest provides food to the hunter after they are exhaustingly tired."
(Zimbabwean proverb)
"An idle man is up to no good."
(Corsican proverb)

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