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poesy noun old useuk /ˈpəʊ.ɪ.zi/ us /ˈpoʊ.ə.zi/ [ U ] poetry: He believed he would have been hailed more publicly if he had written poesy instead of prose. [ C ] a poem: In the poesies we see the hapless hunter Actaeon stumbling across the chaste goddess Diana. The true Latin word for poetry is "poiesis", hence the word "poesy" that purists favoured in the 19th and early 20th centuries. "Poesy" or "poetry" had started becoming restricted to signifying metrical composition rather than prose from the middle of the seventeenth century. The music of Debussy is full of purest, most delicate poesy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Literature accentual action hero alliterative alternative history anapest femslash fiction fictionality fictionally fictive naturalistic non-canonical non-character non-literary non-metrical sympathetically tanka tartan noir theatrics threnody |