Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In quantitative verse, a foot of one long syllable and three short syllables occurring in any order.
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- noun poetry A
foot containing any pattern ofthree shortsyllables andone longsyllable .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The "Hymn to Apollo" was called a paeon or paean, for the singers danced in Cretic rhythms as they chanted it.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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So here's a little paeon to the games that I spent many hours creating rules summaries and reference sheets for that are no longer available here.
Boing Boing 2009
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Some folks seem to be hellbent on arguing that the Battle Hymn of the Republic is a paeon to Lincoln himself.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation 2010
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Instead it is a heart-wringing paeon to homesickness.
After a chequered history the England World Cup song is dead 2010
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Some folks seem to be hellbent on arguing that the Battle Hymn of the Republic is a paeon to Lincoln himself.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation 2010
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Morever, suffice it to say, from the viewpoint of January 2009, a paeon to the deregulatory frenzy that has already ended the investment banking industry and required the commitment of over $1 Trillion of public funds to bail them out, the "argument that markets have their own morality" is ridiculous nonsense.
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A mere four days after foisting John Ibbitson's paeon to deep integration on us, the Globe and Mail is at it again, this time reporting on a poll which purports to show that : "Canadians want Prime Minister Stephen Harper to work more closely with a new U.S. administration" and
Archive 2008-10-01 Noni Mausa 2008
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Perhaps you would enlighten me on the paeon to globalism contained within it? by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Saturday, Mar 22, 2008 at 10: 55: 30 AM
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And a nice paeon to all the “analog” people out there.
More on socialized medicine and a techie tip | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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Since that was part of Unitarianism's draw for me personally, I'm in no position to complain, but this film isn't a paeon to the countercultural current in contemporary Unitarian Universalism.
Philocrites: UUA film 'Voices of a Liberal Faith' now online. 2007
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