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- noun Plural form of
versification .
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Examples
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He may be the most famous philosopher in world history, but he wrote nothing – except some versifications of Aesop's fables, while waiting in prison for the death sentence.
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The fusion of the two versifications was as gradual as that of the two vocabularies had been.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Of English rhyming versifications of the Psalms, the most charming are those of Sir
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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[239] Up to that time “the service of song in the house of the Lord” had consisted, in most worshiping assemblies on this continent, in the singing of rude literal versifications of the Psalms and other Scriptures to some eight or ten old tunes handed down by tradition, and variously sung in various congregations, as modified by local practice.
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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And thus it is that Milton is able to carry his readers through (taking both poems together) sixteen books of epic, without much narrative interest, with foregone conclusions, with long passages which are merely versifications of well-known themes, and with others which the most favourable critics admit to be, if not exactly dull, yet certainly not lively.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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England, the music was the most hopelessly forlorn, -- not alone from the confused versifications of the Psalms which were used, but from the mournful monotony of the few known tunes and the horrible manner in which those tunes were sung.
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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She rendered some parts of it into verse much better than any of us could have done it, and her versifications, laid on Mr. Rossiter's desk, called out a commendation that was no small triumph to her.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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The poems of James I. are the versifications of a man of learning and meditation.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807
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Pray send me Derrick's versifications, which though they are undoubtedly very bad, I shall be glad to see, as sometimes people take a pleasure in beholding a man hanged.
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica James Boswell 1767
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Derrick's versifications are infamously bad; what think you of the
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica James Boswell 1767
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