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单词 sonneteering
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sonneteeringn.

Brit. /ˌsɒnᵻˈtɪərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɑnəˈtɪrɪŋ/
Forms: see sonneteer v. and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sonneteer v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < sonneteer v. + -ing suffix1. Compare earlier sonneteering adj., sonneting n. 1a.
The composition of sonnets; the result or an instance of this.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > sonnet > composition of sonnets
sonneting1593
sonnetry1594
sonneteering1797
sonnetizing1832
1797 Oracle & Public Advertiser 31 Aug. The specimen she has given in Llangollen Vale of powers superior to sonneteering.
1805 H. Lee Canterbury Tales V. 34 I knew that he had touched up some pretty melancholy love-songs and sonneteerings.
1809 Anti-Jacobin Rev. July 296 Of all species of writing, perhaps sonneteering requires the least genius.
1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. iv. 107 The vast outburst of sonneteering which..distinguished the middle of the last decade of the sixteenth century.
1923 J. Q. Adams Life of Shakespeare ix. 127 The ridicule so effectively heaped on sonneteering.
1949 O. Doughty Victorian Romantic: D. G. Rossetti iv. iii. 602 Readings, conversations, sonneteerings, all came with equal facility and felicity to Watts.
1985 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Apr. 470/2 An unwritten rule of sonneteering..is that lines beginning with ‘of’ should be kept to a minimum.
2009 Times (Nexis) 16 Feb. t2 14 The vogue for sonneteering had passed its prime by 1609.

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General attributive.
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1837 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 554 Still I hold my sonnetteering course through various fame.
1841 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 72 Just when one's sonnetteering age is departing.
1903 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 53/2 A learned sonnetteering contest.
1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Sept. 609/1 A series of private sonneteering tournaments.
2001 M. R. G. Spiller Early Mod. Sonneteers x. 46 His sonneteering technique developed throughout his life until the final printing of 1619.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sonneteeringadj.

Brit. /ˌsɒnᵻˈtɪərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɑnəˈtɪrɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sonneteer n., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < sonneteer n. + -ing suffix2. Compare later sonneteer v.
That writes or composes sonnets; relating to or involving sonnets.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [adjective] > sonnet > composing sonnets
sonneteering1725
1725 R. Pack New Coll. Misc. Prose & Verse ii. 66 Ev'n I, the Meanest of the Tribe, An Humble Sonneteering Scribe, Warm'd by your soft Poetick Fire, To loftier Numbers may Aspire.
1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 925 Let sonneteering Bowles his strains refine.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 368 In the very height of that divine sonneteering love of Laura.
1912 Mod. Lang. Rev. 7 155 The imitative habit of Daniel's sonneteering muse is further illustrated by Sonnet xxx.
2013 Guardian (Nexis) 10 Aug. (Review section) 2 It relates the psychological drama of a woman who has been abandoned by a sonneteering lover.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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