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ENJAMBMENT

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

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

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

• ENJAMBMENT (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 ("enjambment" is a kind of...):

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

"Kill not the goose that laid the golden egg."
(English proverb)
"Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man."
(Native American proverb, Sioux)
"Be generous to a generous person and you'd win him, be generous to a mean person and he'd rebel on you."
(Arabic proverb)
"Learned young is done old."
(Dutch proverb)

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