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plural sonnets
A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes. examples
third-person singular simple present sonnets, present participle sonneting or sonnetting, simple past and past participle sonneted or sonnetted
(intransitive) To compose sonnets. quotations examples
strains that come almost to sonneting
1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […]
(transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about. examples