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diaeresis
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diaeresis, dieresis
a pause in a line of verse occurring when the end of a foot coincides with the end of a word


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Proper nutrition and high-quality food are used during dieresis to control diarrhea and vomiting.
The naming of Brunetto suggests a banal, perhaps homosexual, Dantism, also in evidence on December 18,1934, when he instructs "Benito" (whose name he parses) in the pronunciation of "Italia" with Dantesque dieresis.
I feel the soul inside me, dear dieresis that thews my breath and flesh, that separates heart's thrusting muscle as it meditates from all the rough heart cherishes, I sense the supple disjunctions of the animal threshed in the indiscernible meshes of the element and, terrified, crow with the cock and bark with the farmer's dog, wriggle awake, crawl from the salt bog of sleep unsatisfied: on my lips and on my eyelids as the new sun shoulders the clouds aside, a darkness sits, intangible as dew.
 
 
 
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