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unrhyme en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + rhyme.

Meanings

1. A line of verse that does not rhyme.
   • As in Emily Dickinson there is too a fastidious precision of thought where unrhymes fill the purpose better than rhymes 2003, Elizabeth Gregory, The critical response to Marianne Moore:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
unrhymes	Number=Plur		lexicographic

unrhyme en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + rhyme.

Meanings

1. To remove the rhyme or expected rhyme from.
   • He half-rhymes "one" and "groan," clearly unrhymes "still" with "days," and seems unconcerned that the second "Shiloh" has no rhyming mate. 1978, Richard Sharp, The poet's witness:
   • "Unrhyming" — translating from verse to prose — while common in late medieval France, was relatively rare in England: coincidentally, the Gilte Legende unrhymes its verse sources 1992, Osbern Bokenham, A legend of holy women:
   • a class of hackwriters arose whose job was to unrhyme the verse chronicles of the trouvere and to render them in the common speech of the day 1938, Ford Madox Ford, The march of literature: from Confucius' day to our own, page 333:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
unrhymed	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
unrhymed	Tense=Past		lexicographic
unrhymes	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
unrhyming	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic