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▪ I. sonneˈteering, vbl. n. [f. prec.] The composition of sonnets; the result of this.
1797–1805S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. V. 34, I knew that he had touched up some pretty melancholy love-songs and sonneteerings. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! ii, He had talked over the art of sonneteering with Tasso. 1887G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizab. Lit. iv. (1890) 107 The vast outburst of sonneteering which..distinguished the middle of the last decade of the sixteenth century. attrib.1841E. Fitzgerald Lett. (1889) I. 72 Just when one's sonnetteering age is departing. 1885Athenæum 6 June 722/1 William Shakspeare..wrote sonneteering addresses to a young man. ▪ II. sonneˈteering, ppl. a. [f. as prec.] Composing or producing sonnets.
1809Byron Bards & Rev. 925 Let sonneteering Bowles his strains refine. 1824Macaulay Misc. Writ. (1860) I. 67 Blue-stocking ladies and sonneteering gentlemen. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 368 In the very height of that divine sonneteering love of Laura. |