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Meaning of misline | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To incorrectly divide into lines.

Examples

“If the addition was in verse, he might set it up as prose or misline it, placing perhaps too many or too few feet in a line and thus throwing out the whole arrangement of the verse.”
“The author apparently mislined his verse here, as both texts place the words at the end of l. 60 but correctly end l. 61 with 'weepe'”
“Both compositors had some difficulty with lineation, but X mislined his copy only eight times whereas Y mislined his stint twenty-two times, often in more serious ways.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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