Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being alliterative.
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- noun The state or quality of being
alliterative .
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Examples
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Her name is Bonnie Bach and the comic book alliterativeness of her name tells you what her role in the story is, like Lois Lane, Betty Brant, and Pepper Potts, she's there to adore their respective heroes on our behalf.
Blogging Charlie Wilson's War: The movie, again, because a couple of things are still bugging me 2008
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Her name is Bonnie Bach and the comic book alliterativeness of her name tells you what her role in the story is, like Lois Lane, Betty Brant, and Pepper Potts, she's there to adore their respective heroes on our behalf.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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You cannot read a page of the Faery Queene, if you read for that purpose, without perceiving the intentional alliterativeness of the words; and yet so skilfully is this managed, that it never strikes any unwarned ear as artificial, or other than the result of the necessary movement of the verse.
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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