long measure


noun
  1. 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.

Origin of long measure

1
First recorded in 1710–20

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How to use long measure in a sentence

  • It was a long measure of more than fifty sections, carefully planned and skillfully drawn.

    History of the United States | Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
  • 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.

  • 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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British Dictionary definitions for long measure

long measure

noun
  1. another name for linear measure

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