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- verb Present participle of
disproportion .
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If disproportioning the emphasis we read these stanzas so as to make the rhymes perceptible, even tri-syllable rhymes could scarcely produce an equal sense of oddity and strangeness, as we feel here in finding rhymes at all in sentences so exclusively colloquial.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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