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Etymology
Back-formation from alliteration.
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alliterate (third-person singular simple present alliterates, present participle alliterating, simple past and past participle alliterated)
- (intransitive) To exhibit alliteration.
- (transitive) To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration.
1888, George Theodore Dippold, Richard Wagner's Poem the Ring of the Nibelung: Explained and in Part Translated:It is a strophe of six lines, of which the first and second and the fourth and fifth belong together, while the third and sixth are independently alliterated.
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