alliterational

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adjective

Involving alliteration; alliterative.

Scrabble 14

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adjectivealliterational (comparative more alliterational, superlative most alliterational)

comparative more alliterational · superlative most alliterational

  1. Involving alliteration; alliterative.

    "In whose eyes I shall find grace" is furthermore a very important alliterational brush-stroke on this charming broad canvas.

    1973, Israel Rosenberg, The world of words, page 85
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    Their language has two remarkable peculiarities which seem to separate it from other African tongues; viz., the system of prefixing to every noun a syllable without any separate meaning, and alliterational concord, which changes the initial sound of a secondary word into that of the priamary one.

    1859, Charles Hamilton Smith, The natural history of the human species, page 46

    In the heroic lays, parallelisms of long lines predominate, strictly organized from the point of view of alliterational technique.

    1998, Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinskiĭ, Kenneth H. Ober, The Elder Edda and early forms of the epic, page 230

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