Sonnetteer

Quick meaning: Sonnetteer is a noun meaning Alternative spelling of sonneteer.

Meaning

Alternative spelling of sonneteer.

Example Sentences

I showed all the usual symptoms of the stricken deer—raved, sighed, sonnetteered. I was young then. My attachments are much less volcanic now.

There judged, there sonnetteered, and there pined Pier delle Vigne, from whom Dante, brushing by him in the hell-wood of suicides, tore a gnarly limb.

Unless you could say “a poor copy, but all that survives of this previously unrecorded 15th-century sonnetteer”, mostly you gave or threw away the lower ranks.

A few sonnets he wrote—would he have been Italian had he not done so?—but they are of the dogmatic, self-anatomizing character common to that age, and closely copied by our own sonnetteers of Elizabethan times.

Word Forms

• sonnetteers
• sonnetteering
• sonnetteered

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