Meanings
- pluralplural of rhymester
There must be many mere rhymesters; but making even this allowance, a respectable number of poets will be left.
1846, George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley, The American review, Volume 4, Wiley and Putnam, page 501 more example
Writers of spritely songs, and rhymesters of pretty fancies, are wanting in all the primary constituents. They may give a sort of feeble emotion of pleasure; but they stir no great faculty.
1675, Edward Phillips, Egerton Brydges, Theatrum poetarum anglicanorum: containing brief characters of the English poets, down to the year 1675, From the Press of Bonnant, page xxv
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