elegiac stanza
noun
: a quatrain in iambic pentameter with alternate lines rhyming
Word History
First Known Use
1764, in the meaning defined above
- hyalescent
- hyalin
- compassionable
- compassionate
- compassionate leave
- compassionated
- compassionately
- compassionateness
- compassionatenesses
- compassionates
- compassionating
- compassioned
- compassioning
- compassionless
- compassions
- compassive
- compassless
- compaternity
- compathy
- compatibilities
- compatibility
- compatible
- compatibleness
- compatiblenesses
- compatibles