Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The making or composing of sonnets, as in praise or celebration of something; the writing of poetry.
- noun Song; singing.
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- verb Present participle of
sonnet .
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Examples
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Or a fool, perhaps, for all her sonneting, for there are men who relish a weak headpiece as the chiefest ornament of women, especially when its indeterminate vagaries boast an escape-valve remotely connected with the fine arts.
Judith of the Plains Marie Manning
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Chloe had intimated that her graceful fingers were engaged with the inkpot and her head with schemes for further sonneting.
Judith of the Plains Marie Manning
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Cease from sonneting, my brothers; let us fashion songs from life.
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918
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But there was other work than sonneting afoot that night, and shortly I set about it.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918
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Cease from sonneting, my brothers; let us fashion songs from life.
The Certain Hour 1909
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Is it not lucky for swains like you that the soldiers have quite forsworn sonneting?
Letters on Literature Andrew Lang 1878
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