What's the difference between versification and versify?

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.

Versify


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make verses.
  • (v. t.) To relate or describe in verse; to compose in verse.
  • (v. t.) To turn into verse; to render into metrical form; as, to versify 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.

Words possibly related to "versification"

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