What's the difference between versification and versifier?

Versification


Definition:

  • (n.) The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Singularities of the evolution are completely characterized as emergence, accretion and versification processes (involving topological change) and singularities by which inflections (inflection points for curves, parabolic curves for surfaces) are generated.

Versifier


Definition:

  • (n.) One who versifies, or makes verses; as, not every versifier is a poet.
  • (n.) One who converts into verse; one who expresses in verse the ideas of another written in prose; as, Dr. Watts was a versifier of the Psalms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) John Byrom, a lazy, self-indulgent 18th-century versifier, had three black hedgehogs on his coat of arms.
  • (2) It meant both that Jews might misread poems as anti-semitic and that anti-semites might versify their prejudices.

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