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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈskæn.ʃən/Part of speech nounSorted acinnossStarts with SEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. analysis of verse into metrical patterns

Word origin

From Late Latin scansiōnem, accusative singular of scansiō (“the act of climbing”), from scandō (“to climb”).

Used in a sentence

  • Many of my doggerels are scansioned from letters I've written to these children while they were incarcerated in those warehouses for the minority nuisance, laughingly called correctional facilities.
  • It is “mannered through and through” or, in Karl Kraus's notorious harangue, little more than “scansioned journalism” — an “artful stage-prop in the shopping window of a pastry shop or a feuilleton writer.
  • The fine zigzag and diagonal interweavings, the nuances of varying intervals between the scansioned dots, show the enormous time and effort Polke invested in his complex, manual transfer method.

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