nonstress
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]nonstress (countable and uncountable, plural nonstresses)
- The absence of stress.
- 2002, Graham Parry, Joad Raymond, Milton and the Terms of Liberty, →ISBN, page 40:
- In addition, the line-turn can act as a virtual syllable, in iambics creating promotions from two instead of three nonstresses at the end of a line [...]