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Webster 1913 Edition


Iambically

I-am′bic-al-ly

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adv.
In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.

Definition 2024


iambically

iambically

English

Adverb

iambically (comparative more iambically, superlative most iambically)

  1. According to iambic meter.
    • 2001, David Keppel-Jones, The strict metrical tradition (page 27)
      First, English phrases tend to open iambically on an unstressed word (article, preposition, or conjunction), as with The rising world and the waters in the line before us.