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- noun The quality of being
rhymeless .
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Examples
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Pindaric of the late seventeenth and earlier eighteenth centuries, and in the rhymelessness of Sayers earlier and of Mr. Arnold later.
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Blank verse took from Latin its rhymelessness, but it retained accent instead of quantity as the basis of its line.
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906
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In the first place, its rhymelessness is a caprice, a will-worship.
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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But the caprice of _The Strayed Reveller_ does not cease with its rhymelessness.
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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