Leonine
['liːənaɪn] or ['liənaɪn]
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity.
Typist: Thaddeus
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Lion-like.
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Definition
adj. a kind of Latin verse generally alternate hexameter and pentameter rhyming at the middle and end.
adj. of or like a lion.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox:
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Examples
- He reminded her that she had once gathered his head in her arms, caressed his leonine graces, and cried out, Graham, I _do_ like you! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Danton, in his leonine r?le, was very fine upon this occasion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Danton was still Danton, leonine and exemplary upon the guillotine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dr. Carver inclined his leonine head, and the Marchioness continued: Ah, New York--New York--how little the life of the spirit has reached it! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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