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nonstress

noun

Etymology

From non- + stress.

  1. derived from strictus
  2. derived from *strictia✻
  3. derived from estrece
  4. inherited from stresse
  5. derived from distringō
  6. derived from destrecier
  7. inherited from destresse
  8. formed as nonstress — “non- + stress”

Definitions

  1. The absence of stress.

    • In addition, the line-turn can act as a virtual syllable, in iambics creating promotions from two instead of three nonstresses at the end of a line [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonstress. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA