Definitions
a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
Word origin
Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“to cut down, hew”).
Used in a sentence
“Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my cæsuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […]”
“A quiet time. A caesura. Then everything happened almost at once, and none of it was good.”
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01“Verse pause”7 letters
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