: a version in verse of something originally in prose
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebSlathering your emotions across the page while crossing your fingers about the versification was what bad readers expected and what bad poets did. Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022 Auden’s career presents a sight unique in the annals of English literature: a vision of someone claiming as personal playground the entirety of English versification. Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 But this is bad advice, as showy and even showoffy rhymes are one of the special glories of English versification. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Latin versificātiōn-, versificātiō, from versificāre "to versify" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of action nouns